Woman wants man and car returned

Beijing traffic patrol yesterday denied it was plotting against a family who accused authorities of illegal entrapment when confiscating their unlicensed cab.

Han Limin, mother of a one-year-old boy, protested with her baby before the headquarters of Beijing traffic patrol brigade's first division Tuesday morning. She said her mentally ill husband, Liu Peng, went missing after a police patrol drove off his unlicensed cab in north Beijing's Tiantongyuan area on Dec 18 and threatened to fine him 10,000 yuan.

"I want my husband and my car back," read a banner held up by Han, a migrant worker from nearby Hebei province. She said she wanted to sell the car and spend the money to look for her missing husband.