https://www.scmp.com/rss/319146/feed Fashion chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law was abducted by a gang who broke into her home in Sai Kung on April 25, 2015. The kidnappers stole HK$2 million in cash and valuables. Law was held for three days at a secluded cave and was released days later after her father paid HK$28 million in ransom. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Two years ago, the heiress to an enormous fortune was kidnapped from her mansion, taken blindfolded to a cave and held captive there for four days until her father paid a multimillion dollar ransom. It is not a problem most young women face, but 30-year-old Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law is hoping her newly released book detailing her ordeal will help others overcome their own struggles, even if they don’t have to deal with a band of kidnappers. Queenie Rosita Law: what I learned from my... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2103721/i-thought-about-future-not-death-kidnapped-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2103721/i-thought-about-future-not-death-kidnapped-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Jul 2017 08:08:31 +0000 Queenie Rosita Law, scion of the family behind clothing chain Bossini, elaborates on her kidnapping in 2015 and reveals how her abductors sought to treat her kindly, according to her forthcoming book. One kidnapper swore that the gang would not hurt her and even promised to offer her help if she encountered trouble in the future, Law wrote in the book due to launch next week. Now 30, Law has given interviews in the past about her infamous kidnapping in April 2015, but never before disclosed... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2102426/bossini-heiress-queenie-law-launch-book-about?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2102426/bossini-heiress-queenie-law-launch-book-about?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:15:42 +0000 The Court of Appeal rejected a bid by a member of the gang that kidnapped Queenie Rosita Law to have his jail sentence reduced as a judge ruled his “logistical support” for the crime did not diminish his responsibility. Zheng Xingwang, who was jailed for 12 years, argued that his jail term was excessive and that he had not threatened to use force against the victim at any time. Zheng was jailed in June last year after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping the heiress to Bossini, a Hong Kong-listed... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2076411/jail-term-upheld-bossini-heiress-kidnapper-due-his-role?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2076411/jail-term-upheld-bossini-heiress-kidnapper-due-his-role?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:07:01 +0000 The High Court rejected an appeal by a man convicted over the kidnapping of Bossini clothing chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law for a reduced jail term on Wednesday. Zheng Xingwang, who was jailed for 12 years on June 16, told the court that he considered his sentence “excessive”. Judge Mr Justice Ian McWalters took note of his late application for an appeal – which should be filed within 28 days from the date of the ruling. Zheng denied that the late submission was his own fault. “I completed the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2071058/bossini-heiress-kidnapper-has-appeal-reduced-jail-term?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2071058/bossini-heiress-kidnapper-has-appeal-reduced-jail-term?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:22:15 +0000 A man, who was earlier jailed for 12 years over his involvement in the kidnapping of the Bossini heiress, is looking to appeal against the sentence. Zheng Xingwang told the court on Wednesday that he neither applied for legal aid nor sought legal representation in his application for permission to appeal. “I don’t know the procedures,” the mainlander said. Court of Appeal judge Mr Justice Andrew Cheung Kui-nang asked whether he still wanted to proceed with his application. “Yes,” Zheng... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044364/member-gang-which-abducted-bossini-heiress-seeks-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044364/member-gang-which-abducted-bossini-heiress-seeks-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 06:05:21 +0000 Queenie Rosita Law, scion of the family behind clothing chain Bossini, isn’t fazed by mountainous forests – an environment that may be disturbingly similar to the one in which she was held during her kidnap ordeal last year. Over the past few months, Law has walked the forests to be found in Japan and Norway. Apart from seeking inspiration for her upcoming artistic exhibition The Forest, it was also a mental exercise. Reliving scenes in a similar environment time and again, she said, helped her... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2041387/bossini-heiress-relives-kidnap-ordeal-forest-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2041387/bossini-heiress-relives-kidnap-ordeal-forest-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:30:00 +0000 On Wednesday, the curtain finally fell on the saga of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law’s kidnapping as she was returned HK$6.54 million in ransom money. The sum was earlier recovered by Shenzhen police over several occasions, with the arrests of nine gangsters involved in the HK$28 million kidnap case which saw Law abducted on April 25 last year after the gang broke into her home in Sai Kung. Law, whose grandfather Law Ting-pong founded the Bossini empire, was held in captive in a cave in Fei... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2017546/shenzhen-police-return-final-hk654-million-ransom-money?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2017546/shenzhen-police-return-final-hk654-million-ransom-money?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Sep 2016 03:18:21 +0000 A Shenzhen court on Friday jailed seven mainlanders and a Hongkonger for up to 15 years for their roles in the high-profile kidnap of Bossini clothes chain heiress Queenie Law. Dai Xunhui, the only Hong Kong member of the gang, was jailed for one year and 10 months by the Shenzhen Intermediate Court and fined 10,000 yuan (HK$11,645) for covering up illegal proceeds. Dai was paid for delivering stolen ­jewellery from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. The gang’s ringleader, You Dunkui, 39, was jailed for 15... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1996486/mainland-china-court-sentences-kidnappers-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1996486/mainland-china-court-sentences-kidnappers-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jul 2016 06:17:56 +0000 The only member of the Bossini heiress kidnap gang to face justice in Hong Kong was jailed for 12 years on Thursday for his role in what a judge described as a “wicked and heinous” crime. Before sending mainland gangster Zheng Xingwang down, Mr Justice Kevin Zervos said the hefty prison term should serve as a deterrent to others who might contemplate such a “nasty crime”. Zheng, 30, had earlier pleaded guilty in the High Court to kidnapping Queenie Rosita Law, the ­29-year-old granddaughter of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1976094/bossini-heiress-kidnapper-jailed-12-years-heinous-crime?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1976094/bossini-heiress-kidnapper-jailed-12-years-heinous-crime?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:00:30 +0000 Queenie Rosita Law said she had “overcome” the difficulties of her kidnapping ordeal and may write a book to “inspire others” to be strong in the face of hardship. In an interview with the Post, the 29-year-old Bossini heiress described a “180-degree change” to her life after spending nearly a month resting at home after the kidnapping, following by her finding “another world”. She emphasised she was not traumatised and that the experience taught her a lesson to devote energy towards her “dream... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1975050/queenie-rosita-law-what-i-learned-my-kidnapping?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1975050/queenie-rosita-law-what-i-learned-my-kidnapping?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:04:19 +0000 A Hong Kong clothing chain heiress at the centre of the most high-profile kidnap the city has seen in recent years says “positive thinking” helped her survive the four-day ordeal of being held in a dank, remote cave with the constant threat of being killed hanging over her head. After a guilty plea was entered yesterday by the only member of the kidnap gang to face justice in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post can report the contents of an exclusive interview with Queenie Rosita Law, the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1971428/bossini-heiress-tells-her-tale-mainland-gangster-admits-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1971428/bossini-heiress-tells-her-tale-mainland-gangster-admits-her?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:45:00 +0000 The High Court has adjourned until next Tuesday for a plea to be given by a mainland man arrested in Hong Kong over last year’s ­kidnapping of an heiress to the Bossini clothing chain. The presiding judge criticised the prosecution for submitting ­incomplete documentary proof of his guilt on Friday. The court heard on Friday that Zheng Xingwang, 30, was supposed to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to take or detain Queenie Rosita Law, granddaughter of late Bossini founder Law Ting-pong,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1971679/bossini-heiress-kidnap-trial-adjourned-hong-kong-judge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1971679/bossini-heiress-kidnap-trial-adjourned-hong-kong-judge?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Jun 2016 07:55:27 +0000 An underworld fixer who arranged the illicit cross-border movement of the gang who staged the HK$28 million kidnap of a wealthy Hong Kong heiress has been jailed for more than two years after a secretive trial in Shenzhen. More than a year after Queenie Rosita Law was snatched from her Sai Kung mansion and held in a hillside cave, it has emerged that a people smuggling specialist from Shenzhen has become the first member of the gang to be formally convicted in connection with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1969371/member-bossini-heiress-kidnap-gang-jailed-two-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1969371/member-bossini-heiress-kidnap-gang-jailed-two-years?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:14:32 +0000 An heiress to the Bossini apparel chain feared she would be killed by her kidnappers last year as they doubted her father would pay a multimillion-dollar ransom for her release, mainland court documents showed yesterday. Queenie Rosita Law, granddaughter of late Bossini founder Law Ting-pong, revealed details in a statement to Guangdong public security officials that was used as evidence in the trial of her six kidnappers and two others accused of covering up illegal proceeds. The trial, at... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1930949/i-feared-they-would-kill-me-bossini-heiress-queenie-law?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1930949/i-feared-they-would-kill-me-bossini-heiress-queenie-law?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:09:09 +0000 The kidnappers of an heiress to the Bossini apparel chain had originally targeted her mother, with one of the abductors having done renovation work on their luxury home, a Shenzhen court heard yesterday. Six of eight mainland men who stood trial yesterday pleaded guilty to kidnapping Queenie Rosita Law, who was asleep with her boyfriend when the gang broke into the Sai Kung house in April last year. Two others were charged with covering up illegal proceeds, one of them a Hongkonger. Law,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1929995/bossini-heiress-kidnap-inspired-renovation-worker-who?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1929995/bossini-heiress-kidnap-inspired-renovation-worker-who?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:15:15 +0000 A Hong Kong man is among nine people standing trial in Shenzhen on Thursday over the high-profile ­kidnapping of an heiress to ­apparel chain Bossini last year. The trial will be held at the Shenzhen Intermediate Court and is expected to last two days. Lawyers on both sides of the border have questioned the ­arrangement for mainland courts to handle the case, noting that the principal acts took place in Hong Kong – at the Sai Kung home of Queenie Rosita Law, the granddaughter of Bossini founder... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1929888/hong-kong-man-among-nine-standing-trial-shenzhen-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1929888/hong-kong-man-among-nine-standing-trial-shenzhen-over?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:11:17 +0000 Almost every cent of the HK$28 million ransom paid to secure the release of kidnapped Bossini clothing chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law is back in the hands of the authorities after police found HK$6.35 million buried in Ma On Shan country park on Thursday. Almost a year after the dramatic abduction, just HK$110,000 – believed to have been spent by the kidnappers – remains unrecovered. READ MORE: HK$15m more of Bossini heiress ransom found by police on Sai Kung hill The painstaking cross-border... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1920436/bossini-heiress-kidnapping-hong-kong-police-recover-hk635m?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1920436/bossini-heiress-kidnapping-hong-kong-police-recover-hk635m?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:47:21 +0000 Hong Kong police have recovered another HK$15 million of the HK$28 million in ransom money paid to free Queenie Rosita Law, the kidnapped heiress of a local clothing chain - but more than HK$6 million remains missing, police said yesterday. Bundles of HK$1,000 banknotes stuffed in several bags were found buried on a secluded hillside in Sai Kung on Thursday, according to police sources with knowledge of the case. The money was found within about a 30-minute walk from a cave where Law, whose... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1847318/hong-kong-police-find-ransom-money-hk15m-paid-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1847318/hong-kong-police-find-ransom-money-hk15m-paid-over?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Aug 2015 03:00:45 +0000 Three masked robbers tied up a 24-year-old man at knifepoint and escaped with HK$70,000 in cash and valuables from a luxury Sai Kung house in a predawn  raid yesterday, near the home of a fashion chain heiress held by 8kidnappers in late April. The victim’s parents and his friend remained undisturbed throughout the intruders’ one-hour search of the three-storey house off Clear Water Bay Road,  according to police sources close to the investigation. And a foreign domestic helper who was sleeping... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1835664/masked-robbers-hold-hong-kong-man-knifepoint-luxury-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1835664/masked-robbers-hold-hong-kong-man-knifepoint-luxury-home?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:30:15 +0000 Detectives investigating the alleged HK$28 million kidnap for ransom of a Hong Kong clothing chain heiress still haven't found the cave where they say she was held captive - 10 weeks after the alleged crime. The continued police search for the cave and other unfinished detective work emerged yesterday as suspected kidnapper Zheng Xingwang appeared in court for the third time since his arrest in Hong Kong earlier this year in connection with the alleged kidnap of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1834133/location-cave-where-bossini-heiress-was-held-still-eludes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1834133/location-cave-where-bossini-heiress-was-held-still-eludes?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:15:45 +0000 Mainland police have recovered another HK$3.65 million of the ransom money paid in the kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law, but more than HK$20 million remains missing. Four bundles of HK$1,000 banknotes stuffed in a white plastic bag were found in a black rucksack hidden in bushes on a remote hillside in Shenzhen, according to a report on the weibo account of the city's Public Security Bureau. Inside the rucksack, police also found 10 items of jewellery believed to have been stolen... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1811312/mainland-police-recover-hk365m-ransom-money-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1811312/mainland-police-recover-hk365m-ransom-money-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 May 2015 11:00:45 +0000 Gangsters who escaped with a HK$28 million ransom in the Bossini heiress kidnap case were able to evade a huge dragnet because Hong Kong police were looking for the wrong getaway car, it has emerged. In the crucial minutes following Queenie Rosita Law's release in Fei Ngo Shan at 8pm on April 28, after her father handed over the ransom, police were given the registration number and a description of the seven-seater in which the gang fled the scene. However, according to police sources, both the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797924/hong-kong-police-scour-hillsides-seeking-evidence-ransom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797924/hong-kong-police-scour-hillsides-seeking-evidence-ransom?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 May 2015 06:15:30 +0000 After mainland and Hong Kong authorities announced yesterday that all nine of the suspected participants in last month’s kidnap of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law had been arrested, they now need to decide where to try them – and at least one legal expert says the chance of a rendition to Hong Kong is slim. Differences in evidence standards on different sides of the border, combined with the complication of possibly transferring only some of the suspects back to Hong Kong, may lead... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797824/hong-kong-kidnap-suspects-arrested-chinese-mainland-likely?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797824/hong-kong-kidnap-suspects-arrested-chinese-mainland-likely?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 May 2015 04:00:00 +0000 Hong Kong and mainland police have revealed that the mastermind behind the brazen kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law eluded arrest in Hong Kong for 11 days before fleeing to the mainland in the dead of night on May 6. When the leader, identified only as You, was caught in Huidong county, Guangdong, three days later with another member of the gang, they had on them HK$2.8 million, just 10 per cent of the HK$28 million ransom they escaped with. Where they stashed the remainder of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797508/mastermind-behind-kidnapping-bossini-heiress-hid-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1797508/mastermind-behind-kidnapping-bossini-heiress-hid-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 May 2015 15:45:15 +0000 With the announcement of two more arrests in the kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law, police in Hong Kong and the mainland said all participants in the crime had been caught – but they were still stumped as to where 90 per cent of the HK$28 million ransom was hidden. Authorities, meanwhile, have yet to decide whether the eight people arrested on the mainland will stand trial in Hong Kong or the mainland. The one arrested in Hong Kong will be tried in the city. Police in Guangdong... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1796234/guangdong-police-seize-eight-suspects-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1796234/guangdong-police-seize-eight-suspects-bossini-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 May 2015 02:15:15 +0000 Six suspects arrested on the mainland in connection with the kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law could be tried there in the absence of an extradition deal with Hong Kong, legal experts have said. The six were arrested in Guangdong province on Monday morning. A seventh suspect, Zheng Xingwang, was arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday night as he tried to leave for Shenzhen. He appeared in court yesterday. Legal experts said Hong Kong had jurisdiction over the kidnapping because it took... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787802/queenie-law-kidnap-suspects-may-be-tried-mainland-china-due?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787802/queenie-law-kidnap-suspects-may-be-tried-mainland-china-due?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 May 2015 20:45:00 +0000 Security jitters sparked by one of Hong Kong's highest-profile kidnap investigations have seen a rush for private security services by the city's rich and famous. A former top anti-terrorism officer in the Hong Kong police who now operates in the private sector said there has been increased demand for bodyguards. But he warned some ex-police officers could be trying to cash in on the fear factor by exaggerating their level of experience to land lucrative security contracts. International... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787854/kidnap-case-sparks-clamour-bodyguards-among-rich-and-famous?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787854/kidnap-case-sparks-clamour-bodyguards-among-rich-and-famous?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 May 2015 15:45:30 +0000 The hunt for gang members accused of kidnapping Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law last night zeroed in on woodland in Hong Kong's Sha Tau Kok border area as police work on a theory that the gang buried the HK$28 million ransom cash in the city as they made their escape. The South China Morning Post has also confirmed that all six core members of the gang - at least two of whom are the focus of the border area search - came from Guizhou province in the southwest of the mainland and entered Hong... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787853/gang-who-kidnapped-bossini-heiress-may-have-buried-cash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787853/gang-who-kidnapped-bossini-heiress-may-have-buried-cash?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 May 2015 15:45:00 +0000 The first of the men accused over last week's kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law appeared in court yesterday and did not enter a plea - but he did ask for a shower. Zheng Xingwang, the only one of the alleged abductors to be arrested in Hong Kong, appeared in Kwun Tong Court wearing a black T-shirt to face one count of kidnapping. The 29-year-old from Wengan county, Guizhou province was ordered to remain in police custody until he appears in court again on Monday. Prosecutors said... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787466/alleged-hong-kong-kidnapper-appears-court-asks-shower?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1787466/alleged-hong-kong-kidnapper-appears-court-asks-shower?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 May 2015 03:30:30 +0000 Five men suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of Bossini clothing chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law - two of them thought to be core members of the gang who snatched her - have been arrested in Guangdong as efforts continue to recover the HK$28 million ransom paid for her release. The arrests - in various locations across Guangdong - came as Hong Kong police last night charged a 29-year-old mainland man surnamed Zheng in connection with the case, which has rocked the city and provoked... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1786616/all-six-suspects-arrested-hong-kong-fashion-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1786616/all-six-suspects-arrested-hong-kong-fashion-heiress?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 May 2015 08:30:00 +0000 One of Hong Kong's highest- profile police crime reconstructions in recent years took place in the full media glare yesterday as investigations continued into the kidnap for ransom of Bossini clothing chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law. Police carried out a carefully choreographed four-hour reconstruction, the main actor in which was a 29-year-old mainland man, surnamed Zheng, who was last night charged in connection with the alleged kidnap and who is expected to appear in Kwun Tong Court this... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1786493/police-appear-hong-kong-kidnapping-suspect-they-begin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1786493/police-appear-hong-kong-kidnapping-suspect-they-begin?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 May 2015 03:45:30 +0000 Several of the six kidnappers responsible for the multimillion-dollar ransom and abduction of Hong Kong's Bossini fashion chain heiress, Queenie Rosita Law, have been smuggled back to the mainland, the Post has learned. The revelation surfaced after one of the fugitives was intercepted at the Lo Wu border checkpoint when he tried to leave for Shenzhen at about 10.30pm on Sunday, only to be arrested. Last night, the five other suspects - believed to be from the mainland - remained at large and in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/1785527/bossini-heiress-kidnap-suspect-arrested-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/1785527/bossini-heiress-kidnap-suspect-arrested-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 May 2015 03:45:15 +0000 The multimillion-dollar kidnap-for-ransom of fashion chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law was a meticulously planned crime and not - as first believed - the work of an opportunistic burglary gang, according to police. As a city-wide hunt for the six-strong gang - who got away with HK$28 million - extended into the mainland yesterday, new details emerged of how the audacious abduction was executed. Police sources say the new information points to a well-organised plot, not a hastily arranged bid to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783758/hong-kong-police-say-bossini-heiress-kidnap-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783758/hong-kong-police-say-bossini-heiress-kidnap-was?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 May 2015 18:00:00 +0000 Queenie Rosita Law, the 29-year-old heiress to the Bossini clothing fortune who was kidnapped last Saturday, is known as an independent and down-to-earth member of one of Hong Kong's wealthiest families, friends and former classmates said. She is the granddaughter of Law Ting-pong, who founded Bossini, and her family has been running the clothing business for decades. Her father, Raymond Law Ka-kui, is a property investor who is involved in some of the city's major development projects. But... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783321/hong-kong-kidnapping-victim-queenie-law-seen-friendly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783321/hong-kong-kidnapping-victim-queenie-law-seen-friendly?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 May 2015 07:45:15 +0000 A HK$195 million house in Fei Ngo Shan, near where kidnappers collected a HK$28 million ransom for the release of the Bossini founder's granddaughter, was targeted in a pre-dawn burglary attempt yesterday. The intrusion happened at about 3.30am as hundreds of police officers continued their manhunt in Tai Po for six kidnappers who escaped a police dragnet in Fei Ngo Shan after collecting the ransom money. The house, which was bought by Smart Force Enterprise for HK$195 million in April last... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783250/attempted-burglary-luxury-hong-kong-home-near-where-kidnap?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1783250/attempted-burglary-luxury-hong-kong-home-near-where-kidnap?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 May 2015 05:15:15 +0000 Looking solemn, an heiress to the Bossini clothing empire said yesterday she was scared, but physically and emotionally unharmed after a kidnapping ordeal that saw six men escape with HK$28 million in ransom money, as police vowed they would be caught when they started spending the marked bills. Queenie Rosita Law, granddaughter of late Bossini founder Law Ting-pong, held a brief press conference last night, her first public appearance since being released by her kidnappers on Tuesday... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1781765/kidnap-victim-queenie-rosita-law-speaks-about-her-order?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1781765/kidnap-victim-queenie-rosita-law-speaks-about-her-order?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:30:45 +0000 A massive manhunt that began on Tuesday night led hundreds of heavily armed police officers to Ma On Shan Country Park yesterday, where six men were suspected to be hiding out after releasing a woman they had kidnapped and fleeing with HK$28 million in ransom money. It is understood that the victim is the granddaughter of late Bossini founder Law Ting-pong, and officers were seen visiting the family's house in Sai Kung. Around 300 officers threw a dragnet around the 2,880-hectare country park,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1779772/police-scour-hong-kong-air-and-land-kidnappers-who-fled?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1779772/police-scour-hong-kong-air-and-land-kidnappers-who-fled?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:15:15 +0000