Alick Au

One of those Warwick Reid implicated was Alick Au, a solicitor and a Chief Inspector with the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police. He was convicted and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for conspiring with others to pervert the course of justice, namely, impeding or prevent the arrest of Reid.

According to the evidence, on 21 December 1989, Reid was put up in a flat in Shatin rented first by Au (the tenancy was then taken over by a Michael Chan) before departed for Macau by boat on 30 December 1989. Reid was met with a number of the "conspirators" at the Presidente Hotel (and was apparently "greeted with a round of applause") and he was introduced as "John".

Au's defence was basically that he didn't know who "John" really was and that he "later realised, with shock, in April 1990 that John must have been the same man". Reid gave evidence that Au and "everyone" knew who he was. Apparently they exchanged some jokes about Reid's Legal Department card and Au's police warrant card.

Reid then travelled to Guangzhou by car on the 6 January 1990. In mid January, Reid's brother-in-law's passport (the "Blake Passport") was obtained (apparently by Reid's wife) and received by Reid in Guangzhou but could not be used as it had not been used in China. Reid then tried to fly to Manila through the Baiyun Airport using a false passport (bearing Reid's photo but with a Chinese name!) but the forged visa was discovered and he had to transit through (without entering) Hong Kong (cf. The Queen v Alick Au Shui Yuen, No. 470 of 1992).

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