Update | Inaccurate vehicle details given to police allowed Bossini kidnap gang to flee with HK$28 million ransom

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 number and the description were inaccurate, allowing the gangsters to slip the net with the money.

The manhunt - which involved hundreds of officers, checkpoints at 40 locations across Kowloon East district and a Government Flying Service helicopter - was wrongly focused on a white Honda seven-seater with the licence plate HL 6473.

A police source told the : "A car of similar type and colour was spotted in the vicinity of the ransom handover that night, but our subsequent investigations have shown that it was not the getaway vehicle the gang used."

The has also learned that the gang of six masked men managed to bypass the security system at the Law family's home in Clear Water Bay in the early hours of April 25 when they snatched the heiress and stole more than HK$2 million in valuables.

"The home had security measures in place and an alarm system installed, but the gang somehow found a loophole and were able to enter the house without activating the alarm," another source said.