Neil Heywood

Mysteries surrounding Heywood murder begin to unfold

19 Dec 2012

An investigative report about China’s most infamous former police officer Wang Lijun by China’s Southern Metropolis Weekly magazine has answered some questions relating to the murder of British...

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Heywood was spying on Bo Xilai for MI6, says Wall Street Journal

7 Nov 2012

A British businessman murdered by the wife of Bo Xilai had informed on the couple for over a year to his country's spy agency, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

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Neil Heywood an 'informant' to British spy agency, WSJ says

6 Nov 2012

Businessman Neil Heywood, who was murdered in China in a scandal involving one of the Communist Party’s rising stars, Bo Xilai, was an informant to Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, said a...

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China leftists urge parliament not to expel Bo Xilai

22 Oct 2012

A group of Chinese leftists has issued a public letter calling on the country’s largely rubber stamp parliament not to expel disgraced former top leader Bo Xilai from its ranks, saying the move is...

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Bo Xilai’s first wife calls Gu Kailai 'paranoid' over poisoning plot

7 Oct 2012

Months before his fall from power, Chongqing party leader Bo Xilai suspected a plot to poison his second wife and questioned whether his son by his first marriage was involved, a report said on...

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China's top female forensic doctor rejects official cause of Heywood death

27 Sep 2012

In a long blog post published on Wednesday, Wang Xuemei, one of China's top forensic doctors dismisses the official cause of Neil Heywood's death last year.

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Timeline: the Chongqing scandal

Bo Xilai: chief secretary of Chongqing from 2007- 2012. Bo, 63, was the son of a senior Communist Party leader. Before the scandal, he had been widely expected to become a member of Standing...

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Ex-police chief Wang Lijun sentenced to 15 years over Bo Xilai scandal

Former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun – who exposed China’s worst political scandal in a decade – was sentenced to 15 years on Monday morning for defection and other crimes.

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Briton's death still cloaked in mystery

The death of businessman Neil Heywood - an event key to the downfall of princeling-politician Bo Xilai - remains shrouded in mystery five months after the 41-year-old Briton was found dead in a...

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An English 'fixer' out of his depth in murky waters

With his linen suits, his polished British accent, his easy charm and his penchant for yachts and Jaguar cars, Neil Heywood seemed every inch the Englishman abroad.

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Wheels set in motion to distance Bo from killing

In a move at damage control, Chongqing's government newspaper yesterday appeared to try to distance the disgraced Bo Xilai from the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, even though Bo's...

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