China: Bo Xilai's wife 'was in the room when Neil Heywood was poisoned'

Telegraph ^ | 04/24/12 | Damien McElroy, Malcolm Moore

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Bo Xilai's wife 'was in the room when Neil Heywood was poisoned'

Bo Xilai's's wife Gu Kailai, accused of murdering the British businessman Neil Heywood, confessed to police that she was in the room when he was poisoned, according to an account given to American diplomats.

By Damien McElroy, Malcolm Moore in Beijing

9:00PM BST 24 Apr 2012

Wang Lijun, the former chief of police in Chongqing, told US officials that Gu Kailai had confessed that she was responsible for the killing with the words: "I did it."

Mr Wang gave his account of her alleged confession to diplomats at the US consulate in the nearby city of Chengdu in February.

He had fled Chongqing, apparently in fear for his life, after telling Gu's husband Bo Xilai, the city's Communist Party secretary, that his wife may have been involved in Mr Heywood's death.

He spent nearly 30 hours inside the consulate, during which he gave American diplomats his account of what happened to the Old Harrovian.

Wang gave a virtually identical report to the Chinese authorities after he left and these accounts have been given in official circles within and outside China.

According to Mr Wang, Mr Heywood, a fixer with decades of experience in China and a family friend of Mr Bo and his wife, was held down in a hotel room in Chongqing and forced to drink cyanide. Subsequently, Mrs Gu allegedly confessed to the crime. "Gu said 'I did it' three times to Wang," a diplomatic source with knowledge of Wang's account said. "It was a gruesome scene, Heywood spat the cyanide out and they had to give him more."

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I thought that there is an outside chance that we see tanks battles in the middle of Beijing, when this thing got bigger and bigger. Perhaps not this time.:-)

Paramilitary police of China is said to have armored divisions. They may not have nukes, carriers, and warplanes, but they have enough to overthrow a government and impose a regime change.

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P!

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The storm is passed

If we in the West are reading about it in the news, that means the battle in the Party is over (at least for the Bo’s)

Now its just about trashing the Bo’s reputation for good, and the victors writing their version of history for the Chinese people.

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Turning into Madame Butterfly mystery here

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I thought that there is an outside chance that we see tanks battles in the middle of Beijing, when this thing got bigger and bigger. Perhaps not this time.:-)

Not this time. Nothing more than a regional spat. "What happens in ChongQuing stays in ChongQing."

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I was being facetious.