The kidnappers of missing tycoon Teddy Wang Teh-huei threatened to throw a fisherman into the sea when he remonstrated with them for bringing the prisoner on to his boat, a jury heard yesterday.
Fan Kam-tai, 41, said he 'scolded' a gang member when he saw the captive being brought aboard his trawler in heavy seas in the dead of night.
'I was very frightened. I did not know what they were doing,' he later told a detective.
Fan said he asked the kidnapper: 'Now what have you stirred up? 'He told me to shut my mouth and not to say so much. He said if I said that much I would be thrown into the sea. So I decided not to say anything. I was by myself. No one would have known if he threw me into the sea.' Fan has pleaded not guilty to plotting to kidnap Mr Wang, who was abducted near his home on the Peak in April 1990. The tycoon's fate is unknown.
After being arrested last year, Fan told police he had been forced to take food to the kidnappers at sea on another boat but was not in on the plot. He described how one of the gang directed him to steer his boat close to Dang An Shan, near Cheung Chau.
Mr Wang was later brought to his trawler from another vessel and held captive while Fan stayed in the wheelhouse.
