A three-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her father’s office by a former employee on Monday was rescued by police eight hours after she was abducted.
The drama unfolded when the 40-year-old man went to his former office and managed to come up with an excuse so believable that staff thought it was fine to allow him to leave with the young girl.
“About an hour later, the girl’s mother received a short telephone message asking her to pay a ransom of HK$50,000 for the release of the girl,” acting Superintendent Jasper Choi Chun-hoo of Kowloon West regional crime unit said.
The young girl’s mother paid the ransom which helped police locate the man and his girlfriend to a block of flats in the public housing estate in Tsing Yi after he withdrew most of the cash from an ATM in the area.
Plainclothes officers subdued the man after a brief struggle when they saw him leave the block of flats with the young girl. The three-year-old was unharmed. Officers also arrested his 42-year-old girlfriend in the Tsing Yi apartment where the girl was allegedly held, and found most of the ransom in the flat, according to the South China Morning Post.
