Notorious gangster Yip Kai-foon has been left depressed and close to tears because of substandard prison care for his 'appalling' gunshot injuries, a court heard yesterday.
Yip, once Hong Kong's most wanted man, was lying on a makeshift foam mattress covered with a sheet soaked in urine, according to a doctor who visited him in Stanley Prison's hospital ward.
Dr Fali Shroff said in a report the mattress was 'completely unacceptable' for Yip, who is paralysed from the chest down.
He added that the standard of care had fallen below that available outside the prison.
Yip, 37, is serving a record 41-year sentence for possessing explosives, shooting at police, escaping from custody and kidnapping. He was gunned down by a constable during a shootout in Kennedy Town in May 1996.
The former gang boss has suffered from bed sores, a urinary tract infection and depression while in jail.
