The last goodbye: Hong Kong’s ‘King of Thieves’ Kwai Ping-hung spends final night behind bars


Kwai Ping-hung, the “King of Thieves” who has been in prison for 16 years, will bid farewell to fellow inmates on his last night in prison, before he walks free on Saturday and is deported to the United States.

The 59-year-old US passport holder, once Hong Kong’s most wanted gangster, is set to be released from the maximum security facility, Stanley Prison, in the morning and will be escorted under tight security to Hong Kong International Airport to take a flight to New York.

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