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{{Short description|Criminal famous for armed robberies in Hong Kong from 1970s to 1990s}}
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'''Yip Kai-foon''' ({{zh|t=葉繼歡}}; 12 June 1961 – 19 April 2017<ref name="rthk20170419">{{cite news|url=http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1325924-20170419.htm | title='King of Robbery' Yip Kai-foon dies of cancer |publisher=[[RTHK]] |date=19 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143107/http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1325924-20170419.htm| archive-date=20 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), also known as "Teeth Dog" and "Goosehead", was an infamous Chinese criminal who was most active in [[Hong Kong]] from the early 1980s to 1990s. He and his gang specialised in robbing jewellery stores with [[assault rifle]]s. Their weapon of choice was the [[AK-47 assault rifle]], which they acquired from black markets hosted by [[Triad society|triads]]. He is also the first person to have used an AK-47 during an armed robbery in Hong Kong.

==Early crimes==
In October 1984, when he was 23, Yip led a gang of five armed [[mainland Chinese]] men into Hong Kong. They robbed two jewellery stores, King Fook Jewellery Co. Ltd on 10 October 1984 and Dickson Jewellery Co. Ltd. on 27 October 1984, managing to obtain more than {{HKD|2}}&nbsp;million worth of precious items.<ref name=Gee96>{{cite news |url=http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/96/0531/feat3.html |title='Teeth Dog' Meets his Match |author=Gee, Alison Dakota |newspaper=Asiaweek |date=31 May 1996 |access-date=12 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018033714/http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0531/feat3.html |archive-date=18 October 2006 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="1987ukpc4">{{cite court|litigants=Attorney General v Yip Kai Foon|vol=|reporter=UKPC|opinion=4|court=High Court of Hong Kong|date=7 December 1987|url=http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/1987/4.html|access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> Shots were fired during the course of both robberies.<ref name="1987ukpc4"></ref>

On 28 December 1984, the police carried out a [[sting operation]] involving an undercover policeman posed as a potential buyer for the stolen goods. Once the policeman identified himself, Yip attempted to shoot him and a violent struggle occurred. Yip was subdued and found with two handguns, later linked by [[Forensic firearm examination|ballistics]] to the October robberies.{{Cn|date=June 2024}}

Yip was convicted on four counts (two counts of [[handling stolen goods]] for each robbery, one count of possession of firearms, and one count of use of a firearm with intent to resist arrest) and sentenced to 18 years in prison.<ref name="1987ukpc4" /> Yip contested the conviction, claiming that he was asked only to find a buyer for what he thought were sub-standard watches produced in local factories; his appeal was dismissed in 1987. Yip later escaped on 24 August 1989,<ref name="Mok2010">{{cite news |author=Mok |first=Danny |date=8 July 2010 |title=I did wrong, says '80s gangster Yip Kai-foon |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/719119/i-did-wrong-says-80s-gangster-yip-kai-foon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220080203/https://www.scmp.com/article/719119/i-did-wrong-says-80s-gangster-yip-kai-foon |archive-date=2014-12-20 |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref> when he faked [[appendicitis]] and was transferred to [[Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)|Queen Mary Hospital]]. In the toilet, he jumped his two officers with broken bottles and made off in a van parked at the hospital entrance. He hijacked the van with two occupants inside, a 37-year-old van driver and driver's 6-year-old son. While driving, he forced the driver to take off their shoes and clothes so Yip could put them on. He got off at [[Wong Chuk Hang]] and left the scene by bus.<ref>{{cite web |date=2009-11-07 |title= |script-title=zh:89年「詐肚痛」瑪麗越柙 |url=http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/091106/4/f1vf.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109071436/http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/091106/4/f1vf.html |archive-date=2009-11-09 |access-date=2010-11-15 |website=[[Ming Pao]] |language=zh}}</ref> He is presumed to have fled into [[mainland China]].

==On the run==

===AK-47 heists===
On 9 June 1991, he and his gang, armed with AK-47s and pistols, robbed five goldsmiths shops on the "Golden" Mut Wah Street in [[Kwun Tong]]. They fired 54 shots at police and escaped with gold and jewellery worth {{HKD|5.7}}&nbsp;million.<ref name="Lewis95">{{cite news |author=Lewis |first=Tommy |date=7 November 1995 |title=Goosehead gang reward |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/138001/goosehead-gang-reward |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> Many onlookers thought that the gun battle was being staged for a film.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lee |first1=Ella |last2=Lee |first2=Stella |date=18 August 1998 |title=Laughing gangster had army training |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/252071/laughing-gangster-had-army-training |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

The gang was linked to a robbery of two jewellers on [[Tai Po Road]] in [[Sham Shui Po]] on 10 March 1992. During the course of that robbery, gang members fired 65 shots at police and members of the public, escaping with {{HKD|3}}&nbsp;million worth of jewellery.<ref name=Lewis95 /><ref name="Lee96">{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Ella |last2=Lee |first2=Stella |date=15 May 1996 |title=Shops robbed by gang wielding AK-47 rifles |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/159974/shops-robbed-gang-wielding-ak-47-rifles |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

Yip is thought to have been involved in a 6 January 1993 jewellery store robbery on [[Nathan Road]] in [[Mong Kok]], when a gang fired 30 rounds from [[AK-47]]s, killing a woman passerby. One robber was shot by police during the chase; the others dumped his body on the street when they switched getaway cars.<ref name=Lee96 />

[[Macau]] police suspected Yip was involved in an April 1994 armed heist of {{HKD|40}}&nbsp;million in [[gambling chips]] from the casino at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on [[Taipa]].<ref name=Lee96 />

In 1995, Yip moved his crime operation to [[Shenzhen]], participating in the January abduction and murder of a [[Tianjin]] businessman and the November murder of a police informant.<ref>{{cite news |author=Ng |first=Kang-Chung |date=25 October 1998 |title=Confessions 'were forced' |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/260050/confessions-were-forced |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

The total worth of his stolen goods is estimated at {{HKD|20}}&nbsp;million (approximately {{Usd|2576920|link=no}}). Yip achieved notoriety by escaping police custody multiple times.

===Capture and trial===
His career finally came to an end on 13 May 1996 when he was arrested following a [[Kennedy Town]] gunfight with police that left him [[Paraplegia|paralyzed from the waist down]]. At the time he had a {{HKD|1}}&nbsp;million reward on his head,<ref name=Lewis95 /><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=28 January 1996 |title=Hong Kong's most wanted |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/147684/hong-kongs-most-wanted |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> though the two officers involved did not receive the reward.<ref name=Lee96 /> Two police officers had surprised Yip and his gang in an alley near the waterfront. Since they had just debarked from a boat, the police suspected they were illegal immigrants and asked for identification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com.hk/big-smog/features/12092/it-happened-here-yip-kai-foon-arrested-may-13-1996.html |title=It happened here: Yip Kai-foon arrested, May 13, 1996 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=23 July 2008 |website=Time Out HK |access-date=12 December 2014 |archive-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925101730/http://www.timeout.com.hk/big-smog/features/12092/it-happened-here-yip-kai-foon-arrested-may-13-1996.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The rest of the gang fled, but Yip pulled a gun from a bag and began shooting.<ref name=Gee96 /> During an ensuing foot pursuit, the officers testified they ordered him to drop his gun, which he refused to do, instead shooting at the officers.<ref>{{cite news |author=Buddle, Cliff |date=19 February 1997 |title=Yip Kai-foon shot after refusing to give up |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/185448/yip-kai-foon-shot-after-refusing-give |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> After his gun jammed, he was captured.<ref name=Gee96 /> He was found with a machine gun, a pistol, and 1.8&nbsp;kg of explosives.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lee, Stella |date=29 May 1996 |title=Suspect gets news of wives |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/161637/suspect-gets-news-wives |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

He was charged with possession of firearms and ammunition without a licence, and shooting with intent to do [[grievous bodily harm]], stemming from wounds one of the officers received in the course of the arrest.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=17 May 1996 |title=Yip arms charge |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/160153/yip-arms-charge |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=18 May 1996 |title=Charged Yip too ill to appear in court |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/160288/charged-yip-too-ill-appear-court |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> While Yip was recovering from his injuries, additional charges of escaping custody and kidnapping (during the van hijacking) were added stemming from his 1989 escape.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hon |first=May Sin-Mi |date=21 July 1996 |title=Yip ring of steel defended |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/167776/yip-ring-steel-defended |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

During the lead-up to the trial, a fictionalised version of Yip's life was filmed as ''[[King of Robbery]]'' ({{zh|t=悍匪}}), also known as ''Life Will Never Be Twice'' and starring [[Simon Yam]] and [[Roy Cheung]], but its planned August 1996 release was delayed by court order.<ref>{{cite news |author=Fonoroff |first=Paul |date=16 August 1996 |title=Court order lifts mundane piece into limelight |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/170641/court-order-lifts-mundane-piece-limelight |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

Yip's trial began on 18 February 1997, with the defence claiming that the police shot Yip in the back and then stole {{HKD|30,000}} from him.<ref>{{cite news |author=Buddle |first=Cliff |date=21 February 1997 |title=Judge in mystery halt to Yip trial |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/185788/judge-mystery-halt-yip-trial |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> He dismissed his defence team two days later, subsequently appearing to fall asleep when given the chance to cross-examine a prosecution witness.<ref>{{cite news |author=Buddle |first=Cliff |date=21 February 1997 |title=Defence rests after Yip sacks his legal team |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/185880/defence-rests-after-yip-sacks-his-legal-team |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

On 10 March 1997, he was convicted of all charges and sentenced to 41 years in prison, which consists of the 11 years he had left on his original sentence and 30 years on the new charges, to be served consecutively. The earliest year in which he could have been released was 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Buddle |first1=Cliff |last2=Wan |first2=Rhonda Lam |date=11 March 1997 |title=Yip all smiles as he is jailed for 41 years |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/187964/yip-all-smiles-he-jailed-41-years |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

==Imprisonment and death==
Yip's lawyers appealed his conviction, stating that the publicity surrounding his arrest was prejudicial to the jury, but lost the appeal on 8 December 1998.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Buddle |first=Cliff |date=9 December 1998 |title=Gangster Yip fails in court appeal |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/265310/gangster-yip-fails-court-appeal |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref>{{cite court |litigants=Yip Kai-foon v HKSAR |vol=1 |reporter=HKLRD |opinion=&nbsp; |court=Court of Appeal |date=1998 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/99pt1.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 |quote=The judge fully comprehended the nature of the material, acknowledged that it was potentially damaging material but was satisfied that that potential could be set at naught if a sufficient warning was given. He gave a properly emphatic warning. In exercising his discretion the judge did not take into account any matters which he should not have considered, nor did he fail to consider matters which he should have considered, and he was neither plainly wrong as to the law or in his reasoning. There was no basis for interfering with the judge’s refusal to stay.}}</ref> A separate appeal to reduce his sentence, based on his injuries and subsequent care, was heard in March 1999.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Buddle |first=Cliff |date=19 March 1999 |title=Mercy plea over gangster's jail care |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/276116/mercy-plea-over-gangsters-jail-care |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> The [[Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)|Court of Appeal]] reduced his sentence by approximately five years.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Buddle |first=Cliff |date=24 April 1999 |title=New evidence will clear me, claims gangster Yip |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/279971/new-evidence-will-clear-me-claims-gangster-yip |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref>{{cite court |litigants=HKSAR v Yip Kai Foon |vol=1 |reporter=HKLRD |opinion=277 |court=Court of Appeal |date=1999 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/99pt2.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 |quote=The overall sentence of 40 years and 3 months called for adjustment in accordance with the totality principle. The totality was excessive and the sentence could be varied to one of 36 years and 3 months. That would be achieved by ordering that the overall sentence of 29 years imposed on the two indictments should start to run four years prior to the expiration of the sentence which the Applicant was serving at the time when the later sentences were imposed.}}</ref> Yip then went to the [[Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)|Court of Final Appeal]] seeking a further reduction in his sentence based on his "catastrophic" medical condition,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/302792/paraplegic-gangster-allowed-challenge-sentence-top-court |title=Paraplegic gangster allowed to challenge sentence in top court |author=Buddle, Cliff |date=15 December 1999 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |location=Hong Kong |access-date=12 December 2014 }}</ref> but the appeal was denied.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lo |first=Clifford |date=4 April 2000 |title=Gangster Yip back in hospital after heart flutter |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/312921/gangster-yip-back-hospital-after-heart-flutter |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref>{{cite court |litigants=Yip Kai-foon v HKSAR |vol=3 |reporter=HKCFAR |opinion=31 |court=Appeal Committee of the Court of Final Appeal |date=2000 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/2000pt3.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 |quote=Although the injuries suffered by the Applicant were very serious, the offences were very grave and he suffered his injuries in a gun battle between his gang and the police. Although no police officers or members of the public were injured they were put to terrible risk. The actions of the Applicant and his gang came very close, as the Court of Appeal rightly stated, to declaring war on society and ''‘a court would be failing in its duty to the public if it did not impose heavy deterrent sentences in circumstances such as this’''. }}</ref> Yip continued to maintain his innocence over the 1996 shootout, offering a substantial reward for a witness who he alleges saw the events leading up to his arrest.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lewis |first=Tommy |date=4 October 2003 |title=Yip offers $500,000 in quest for witness |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/430031/yip-offers-500000-quest-witness |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>

In August 2003, Yip married his [[mainland Chinese]] wife, who he had previously been married to under a false name before his imprisonment.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lee |first=Stella |date=12 August 2003 |title=Gangster Yip Kai-foon ties the knot in prison |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/312921/gangster-yip-back-hospital-after-heart-flutter |access-date=12 December 2014 |newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong}}</ref> In March 2004, Yip converted to [[Christianity]].<ref name="Mok2010" />

On 11 January 2010, Yip was sentenced to an additional six months in jail for assaulting an officer at [[Stanley Prison]] on 30 April 2009.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1 November 2010 |title=Yip Kai-foon gets additional 6 months |url=http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20100111/news_20100111_56_639694.htm |access-date=15 December 2014 |newspaper=[[RTHK]] English News| url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724073306/http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20100111/news_20100111_56_639694.htm| archive-date=2010-07-24}}</ref> He had complained that he had been badly treated by prison guards.<ref name="Mok2010" />

On 1 April 2017, he was hospitalised at [[Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)|Queen Mary Hospital]] for cancer treatment. He died on 19 April 2017 of [[lung cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |date=19 April 2017 |title= |script-title=zh:【賊王病逝】患肺癌下半身癱瘓 健康許可下獲安排做車衣摺熨 |url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/news/20170419/56583767 |publisher=[[Apple Daily]] |language=zh |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143114/http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/news/20170419/56583767| archive-date=2017-04-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= |script-title=zh:一代賊王葉繼歡癌症擴散 醫院病逝 |url=http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20170419/bkn-20170419094611415-0419_00822_001.html |access-date=2017-04-19 |work=[[Oriental Daily News]] |date=19 April 2017 |language=zh-hk}}</ref>

==Cultural influence==
Several documentaries detail Yip's exploits and several fictional movies are adapted from his criminal history.
* ''The Most Dangerous Man'' (2010, {{zh|t=最．危險人物|p=Zuì wéixiǎn rénwù|labels=no|c=|s=}}). Yim Foon portrayed by Karel Wong
* ''[[King of Robbery]]'' (1996, {{zh|t=悍匪|p=Hàn Fěi|l=Ruthless|labels=no}}). Chan Sing portrayed by [[Simon Yam]]
* ''Hong Kong's King of Thieves'' ({{zh|t=香港盜賊之王|labels=no}}). Yip Kai-foon portrayed by Chan Wah
* ''[[Trivisa]]'' (2016). Yip Kwok-foon portrayed by [[Richie Jen]]

==References==

===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite news |url=http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/96/0531/feat3.html |title='Teeth Dog' Meets his Match |author=Gee, Alison Dakota |newspaper=Asiaweek |date=31 May 1996 |access-date=12 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018033714/http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0531/feat3.html |archive-date=18 October 2006 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite court |litigants=Attorney General v Yip Kai Foon |vol=&nbsp; |reporter=UKPC |opinion=4 |court=High Court of Hong Kong |date=7 December 1987 |url=http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/1987/4.html |access-date=15 December 2014 }}
* {{cite court |litigants=Attorney General v Yip Kai Foon |vol=1 |reporter=HKLR |opinion=544 |court=Hong Kong |date=1988 }}
* {{cite court |litigants=R v Yip Kai Foon |vol=&nbsp; |reporter=HKC |opinion=134 |court=Hong Kong |date=1988 }}
* {{cite court |litigants=Yip Kai Foon v HKSAR |vol=1 |reporter=HKLRD |opinion=&nbsp; |court=Court of Appeal |date=1998 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/99pt1.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 }}
* {{cite court |litigants=HKSAR v Yip Kai Foon |vol=1 |reporter=HKLRD |opinion=277 |court=Court of Appeal |date=1999 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/99pt2.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 }}
* {{cite court |litigants=Yip Kai-foon v HKSAR |vol=3 |reporter=HKCFAR |opinion=31 |court=Appeal Committee of the Court of Final Appeal |date=2000 |url=http://www.doj.gov.hk/sc/public/cab/2000pt3.pdf |access-date=15 December 2014 }}

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