Grandmother, 104, travelled 1,600km across China to see her detained grandson ... but police refused to let her see him

A 104-year-old Chinese woman has travelled 1,600km alone from the capital Beijing to a southern province to try to see her detained grandson who is suspected of fraud, local media reported.

The only clue that Fu Zhaojing had to her grandson’s whereabouts was a slip of paper with an address on it.

Without telling her family, Fu boarded a train in Beijing West Station on Thursday last week and, 14 hours later, turned up at the main police station in Changsha, Hunan province, where her grandson was being held, the Xiao Xiang Chen Bao reported.

Police, however, refused to let Fu see her 45-year-old grandson, surnamed Zhao, as the law only allows spouses, children, parents, and brothers and sisters to meet a detained suspect.

A daughter arrived from Beijing the next day to take the disappointed centenarian home.

Fu told the newspaper that she raised Zhao, her eldest grandson, until he finished school.