Tomb raiders attend landmark hearing

GUANGZHOU: A precedential court hearing was held here yesterday in a bid to identify the mastermind behind a plot to raid the tomb of the wife of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.

A first for judicial cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangdong, the hearing involves the investigation of three mainlanders - Huang Xiquan and two men surnamed Chen - convicted by a Guangzhou court last year and sentenced to five-year jail terms for their roles in the crime.

Hong Kong high court judge Alan Raymond Wright, who is presiding over the five-day hearing, said its aim is to collect evidence against Huang's accomplices from the special administrative region.