Hong Kong television star Mat Yeung Ming has won a last-minute bid for freedom after a magistrate decided to remand him in custody over two driving offences, only to later allow him to reverse his guilty plea on the grounds that he had received “improper” legal advice. A prominent criminal lawyer representing Yeung told Eastern Court on Wednesday (March 24) the 40-year-old TVB star had admitted criminal liability in an August 8 crash in the Mid-Levels because he was misled into thinking he would be spared jail. “We have inadvertently misled him into believing that he would not be sentenced to a term of imprisonment or remanded in custody for the offences,” said Cheng Huan SC, on behalf of his instructing solicitors. The acknowledgement came just moments after the presiding magistrate had ordered Yeung to spend three weeks in jail ahead of sentencing.