The figure in the dock, his jet-black hair turned white since his last appearance three years ago, will almost certainly never be seen in public again. And a good thing too, many in China will tell you.
Hui Ka Yan was once Asia’s richest man, yet for many of his countrymen, he was little more than a caricature of extravagance, with his gold-buckled belt, 200-foot mega-yacht and ludicrously expensive London house.