A mentally disabled right-of-abode seeker was deported to the mainland yesterday, hours after Hong Kong's top court turned down his appeal to be allowed to stay.
Cheung Hoi-sang, 25, who has a mental age of 13 according to his solicitor, was sent to the Lowu checkpoint at about 1pm from Victoria Prison, where he has been held since April 13.
His parents met their son, who they said had never travelled alone, before his mother took him back to their home in Shilong town, Dongguan.
His mother, Cheung Wong Yuet-yuen, broke down in tears after crossing the border.
'My son does not know how to take care of himself,' she said.
'He's got lost three times in Hong Kong and we've spent hours looking for him. I'm so worried that my son will end up like Yu Man-hon.'
Autistic boy Man-hon, 15, ran away from his mother and disappeared on the mainland in August 2000 after being wrongly sent back to Shenzhen.
