Defiant gangster Yip Kai-foon flashed a grin from the dock yesterday as he was jailed for 41 years.
Mr Justice Michael Stuart-Moore said Yip was an extremely dangerous professional criminal, telling him: 'You have little or no respect for human life.' But the territory's most notorious criminal, whose reign of terror came to an end when he was gunned down by police, could not resist one last gesture of contempt.
Yip, 35, was found guilty in the High Court of possessing arms and ammunition, using a gun to resist arrest and having 1.8 kilograms of explosives with intent to endanger life or property.
He also admitted escaping from custody in 1989 and kidnapping a man and his six-year-old son.
Yip was given a 30-year term for these crimes. But the sentence will not start until he has finished serving a 16-year sentence for firearms offences imposed in 1985, which still has 11 years to run.
Yip was shot three times during a gun battle with police moments after stepping off a fishing boat in Kennedy Town in the early hours of May 13 last year.