MACAO tycoon Stanley Ho was coerced into a bizarre TV appearance declaring an end to a family feud over his vast fortune, Ho’s lawyer said Thursday as the gripping saga goes to court.

    Appearing on live television Wednesday, the wheelchair-bound tycoon read from a giant cue card and haltingly declared that the public spat had been “resolved,” as he was surrounded by some of the relatives he accused of theft.

    But lawyer Gordon Oldham insisted Thursday that Ho’s relatives were behind the bizarre television performance.

    “I asked him for an explanation about his earlier appearance on TV,” Oldham told a rival Hong Kong broadcaster Cable News.

    “He said that he felt very pressurized by his family to read out that statement. He wasn’t at all happy in doing so,” Oldham told Cable News.(SD-Agencies)