WARWICK REID spoke out for the first time about the blood feud with his brother, Michael, who has recently entered a psychiatric ward.
Reid who once vowed Michael would 'pay the price' for allegedly tipping off the ICAC about his corruption in 1989, said he now wanted to bury the hatchet.
'My relationship with my brother remains strained, although I have no hostile intentions towards him,' he said in the note he passed to the South China Morning Post during the flight home early yesterday.
'And I will not cling to past events in a desire for revenge,' he said.
Reid enjoyed an on board champagne tipple to celebrate his release - his first drink since being re-captured from the Philippines and placed in custody in March, 1990 - and said he was happy to answer any questions put to him.
He also rebuked Governor Chris Patten for refusing to cut 36 months from his original sentence of eight years for having assets he could not explain.
'The fact that the governor did not follow the Chief Justice's recommendation that I be accorded on a three-year reduction on sentence was unjust,' he said.