Pictured: Grinning father of famous model moments after he executed his neighbour and minutes before he 'swallowed the gun' in dramatic standoff with Chinese SAS

  • Li Tak-yan, 51, shot neighbour Liu Kai-chung, 43, outside his apartment
  • Killing started 12-hour standoff with armed police in Hong Kong
  • At one point Li appeared on window ledge with gun to his head
  • Fired at officers before elite unit abseiled down and threw stun grenades
  • Stormed apartment and found Li's body with two pistols and 43 bullets
  • Li's model daughter Liddy Li, 27, is at the centre of an affair scandal
  • Liddy was caught having romance with married director Oxide Pang
  • Police are investigating whether affair prompted Li's attacks

By Chris Pleasance

Published: 03:42 EST, 4 June 2014 | Updated: 08:26 EST, 4 June 2014


A gunman in China has killed himself after executing one of his neighbours and firing at armed police in a 12-hour standoff.

Li Tak-yan, 51, who had served time in jail for attacking another neighbour with a knife, shot Liu Kai-chung, 43, dead outside his apartment in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, on Saturday night in an apparently unmotivated attack.

Li then shot at armed police, sparking a 12-hour standoff which only ended after officers from the elite Special Duties Unit, known as the Flying Tigers, stormed the apartment and found him dead.

In dramatic twist it has emerged that Li is the father of Chinese actress and model Liddy Li, 27, who has made headlines recently after her affair with married director Oxide Pang was exposed.

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Li Tak-yan, 51, father of Chinese model Liddy Li, executed one of his neighbours in Hong Kong, starting a 12-hour standoff with armed police which ended with him killing himself

Li Tak-yan, 51, father of Chinese model Liddy Li, executed one of his neighbours in Hong Kong, starting a 12-hour standoff with armed police which ended with him killing himself

During the stalemate, Li fired appeared on a window ledge with a gun to his head before firing shots at armed police officers below
Police fired one shot back, forcing Li inside. Elite officers from the Special Duties Unit, known as the Flying Tigers, then stormed the apartment but found Li had shot himself

During the stalemate, Li fired appeared on the window ledge outside his apartment with a gun to his head before firing shots at armed police officers below

Police fired one shot at Li, forcing him inside. Elite officers from the Special Duties Unit, known as the Flying Tigers, then stormed the apartment but found Li had killed himself

Police fired one shot at Li, forcing him inside. Elite officers from the Special Duties Unit, known as the Flying Tigers, then stormed the apartment but found Li had killed himself

Police are investigating whether Li's murder and subsequent suicide had anything to do Liddy and Pang's relationship, which was exposed when they were secretly photographed on a date.

After the photo was leaked, Pang flew to the Malaysia to win back his wife, actress Lee Sinje, and then made a joint statement apologising to his wife and admitting his errors.

 

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The standoff with Li began at 11pm on Saturday night after he followed neighbour Liu into the lift in their apartment building on the Kai Ching estate, going with him up to the 21st floor.

As Liu approached his front door, keys in hand, Li shot him three times 'execution style' before returning to his own apartment 11 floors below.

Police evacuated that floor overnight, and in the morning Li appeared on the window ledge outside his apartment with a gun pointed at his head before shooting at police below.

Police are now thought to be investigating whether Li's murder and suicide had anything to do with Liddy's affair
Liddy was pictured having a romance with married director Oxide Pang

In a dramatic twist it has emerged that Li's daughter is model and actress Liddy Li, who has been making headlines after her affair with married director Oxide Pang was exposed

After Oxide (left) and Li were pictured together kissing and hugging on a day out, Oxide left Li to return to Malaysia and win back his wife and has since apologised for his actions

After Oxide (left) and Li were pictured together kissing and hugging on a day out, Oxide left Li to return to Malaysia and win back his wife and has since apologised for his actions

Liddy Li
After their affair was revealed, Oxide left Liddy to go to Malaysia and win his wife back

Police are now investigating whether Li's murder and suicide had anything to do with Liddy's affair

Officers returned one shot, forcing Li back inside. The Flying Tigers then abseiled down the outside of the building, throwing stun grenades through the windows before storming the apartment.

When they got inside they found Li's body slumped next to two pistols, one of which was handmade and 43 rounds of ammunition.

Police have since removed three knives, three holsters and a computer from the flat.

Hong Kong police are working closely with their Guangdong counterparts to trace the source of the weapons.

The Standard in Hong Kong is reporting that Liddy accompanied her younger sister and mother Ding Ping to Fu Shan Public Mortuary in Sha Tin to identify the body of the gunman

Divorced and unemployed, Li had a well-earned reputation for aggressiveness against his neighbours.

Speaking to the South China Morning Post, a resident of Li's tower block who gave his name only as Wong, said: 'He's not the kind of neighbour who you can have a casual chat with.

'About half a year ago, he banged on everyone's door [on my floor] to complain about a noise problem and no one dared to open their doors.'

The elite officers abseiled down to the apartment before throwing stun grenades through the windows
When they got inside they found Li's body slumped next to two pistols and 43 rounds of ammunition

Officers abseiled down to the apartment before throwing stun grenades through the windows. When they got inside they found Li's body slumped next to two pistols and 43 rounds of ammunition

Before attacking officers, Li executed neighbour Liu Kai-chung, 43, by following him up to his apartment and shooting him three times outside his front door

Before attacking officers, Li executed neighbour Liu Kai-chung, 43, by following him up to his apartment and shooting him three times outside his front door

Another resident Tsang Yuk said that when she took her son to the courtyard downstairs she always saw Li wearing the same red polo shirt.

'His shirt stank so bad as if he never washed it,' she said, adding that he acted rather strangely and liked to sit in different corners of the playground.

In a temporary housing estate in the town of Yuen Long where he lived after his business failed and his wife left him, Li attacked and injured a man next door with a meat cleaver

According to The Standard, during the court case Liddy wrote to the judge describing Li as a 'good father'.

He received a one-year prison sentence for his crime, and upon his release moved into the tower near the old Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong.

Psychologists said at the time that he had poor anger management abilities and dealt poorly with stress, but despite being lonely and volatile he was not mentally ill.

Neighbours said Li was hot-tempered and once banged on everyone's door to complain about noise (pictured, Li's body is taken out of the apartment)

Neighbours said Li was hot-tempered and once banged on everyone's door to complain about noise (pictured, Li's body is taken out of the apartment)

Li had a history of attacking his neighbours - he was jailed for a year in 2011 for slicing one with a meat cleaver after his wife left him and his business collapsed

Li had a history of attacking his neighbours - he was jailed for a year in 2011 for slicing one with a meat cleaver after his wife left him and his business collapsed





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now THIS is celebrity gossip

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The Flying Tigers are not the Chinese SAS. They are a special duties unit of the Hong Kong Police and have no affiliation whatsoever with the mainland Chinese police. Their boss is in fact British guy. They are highly trained and only called upon in special circumstances.

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43 bullets! Oh my!

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The shame was probably too much for her Father..... They take this sort of thing very seriously.

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Geez that sleazy man went back n made an open apology cos he was caught. Pathetic n a slimeball

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it's a special police unit in the Hong Kong Police Force, and Kong Kong is a autonomous city-state of China with its own government system. Do your research Daily Mail. Unbelievably poor world knowledge

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The psychiatrist should have at some point determined at some point that he was a danger to himself and to others and incarcerated him.

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Why does that first picture remind me of Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles?

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There are no rules in a game you're quitting, this includes life - this goes to show the saying is true, he was going to quit the game (kill himself) nothing stopping him doing what he wanted for a short period anyway

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"Flying Tigers"? Why don't we ever have aweome names like that?

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Those men are good I tell you..with a great physique body n tough

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flying squad, Trojan.

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