‘I feared they would kill me’: Bossini heiress Queenie Law describes kidnapping panic to mainland China court
The defendants doubted whether her father would pay a multimillion-dollar ransom
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 Shenzhen Intermediate Court, ended yesterday.
Hong Kong man among nine standing trial in Shenzhen over kidnapping of Bossini heiress Queenie Rosita Law
While all the eight defendants pleaded guilty, a defence lawyer warned of a grave injustice if a ninth suspect, arrested in Hong Kong, ended up getting a “significantly different” sentence.
Law was abducted from her home near Clearwater Bay Road last April and kept in a cave for four days before being freed for a ransom of HK$28 million.
Recalling the fear and isolation, she told mainland investigators she feared for her life at one stage of her ordeal.
“The kidnappers initially did not know if my father would really pay the ransom,” her statement read. “I assured them my father would pay them.”
After she had a phone call with her father, arranged by the kidnappers, “one of them turned very angry … I feared they would kill me”, Law said.
