From Reuters’s “Chinese fugitive leaves cave after 8 years” (5 October 2006):
A Chinese man wanted by police on gun charges has given himself up after hiding in a cave constructed at the back of his house for eight years, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The 35-year-old man from the southeastern city of Fuzhou had tunneled the cave out of a hill behind the bedroom of his house and had put a wardrobe in front of the entrance as a disguise, Xinhua said in a report seen on Thursday.
The man, named as Liu Yong, left the cave during the day to read, wash and watch television in the house, but went back into it at night, it said.
He told his wife he was hiding from debt collectors, the report said.
Xinhua said Liu was accused of attacking people with guns, but it didn’t give any more details.
Liu gave himself up to police on Tuesday after no longer being able to cope with the “psychological pressure”, Xinhua added.
Some of his accomplices have already been sentenced to death, it said.