China has been trying to show the justic before the court for Ms.Gu Kailia and Neil Haywood ,a BRRITISH BUSINESSMAN.
It a complex criminal case or a political enforcement trial . God bless with them ! The following is the news from ( W.S.J.) by Jeremy Page .
According to Xinhua, Ms. Gu said in her testimony to the court that while her son was studying in Britain in around 2005, Mr. Heywood had introduced himself in a letter to her and her son, Bo Guagua.
After becoming acquainted with Mr. Heywood, she recommended that he act as a middleman for an unidentified company and to participate in the initial planning of a land project, which never got started, Xinhua quoted her as saying.
Mr. Heywood later got into a dispute with her and her son over payment and other issues, Xinhua said. In court, prosecutors presented emails exchanged between Mr. Heywood and her son, showing how the dispute between them had escalated.
The prosecutors said Ms. Gu decided to kill Mr. Heywood in the belief that he had threatened her son, according to Xinhua.
"To me, that was more than a threat. It was real action that was taking place. I must fight to my death to stop the craziness of Neil Heywood," Xinhua quoted her as saying in her testimony.
Xinhua gave no further details of the dispute.
But observers in the courtroom said prosecutors had said Mr. Heywood had sent an email to Bo Guagua, asking him to pay £13 million ($20.4 million) as compensation for promised returns on a £130 million property deal that went bust.
The observers said prosecutors alleged Mr. Heywood had warned the younger Mr. Bo in the email of damaging consequences if he didn't pay.
The observers' accounts were incomplete because they weren't allowed to take notes or record the proceedings.
The younger Mr. Bo, who friends believe is living in the U.S. after graduating from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in May, declined to comment on the case in an email.
The Xinhua report said that a Bo family aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who stood trial with Ms. Gu, also confessed, saying in his testimony that he had escorted Mr. Heywood from Beijing to Chongqing where the Briton checked into the Nanshan Lijing Holiday hotel on Nov. 13, 2011.
That evening, Ms. Gu had prepared two bottles—one containing cyanide compound and another containing capsulated drugs—and had given the one containing the poison to Mr. Zhang, Xinhua said, quoting testimony from both Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang.
At around 9 p.m., Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang visited Mr. Heywood's hotel, bringing alcohol and tea, which Ms. Gu drank with him while Mr. Zhang waited outside, Xinhua said.
When Mr. Heywood became drunk and fell over in the bathroom, Ms. Gu called in Mr. Zhang and took the glass bottle of cyanide compound he had been carrying, Xinhua said.
Mr. Zhang put Mr. Heywood on the hotel bed, and when the Briton vomited and asked for water, Ms. Gu poured the poison into a small soy sauce container that she had prepared earlier, mixing it with water, Xinhua said.
"She dripped the toxic mixture into Heywood's mouth as she was talking to him," Xinhua said.
Then she scattered the capsulated drugs on the hotel floor, making it seem as though Mr. Heywood had taken the drugs, Xinhua said.
Ms. Gu hung the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door when she left the room and told hotel waiters to leave Mr. Heywood alone, according to one waiter's testimony, Xinhua said.
It said video footage showed Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang visiting Mr. Heywood's room on the night he was killed, and a report from the Ministry of Public Security showed that DNA samples from both alleged killers had been found on bottle caps and cup lids at the crime scene.
Xinhua says the ministry's conclusion was based on renewed examination and identification of trace evidence taken at the crime scene as well as the blood from Mr. Heywood's heart, which was collected and preserved by Chongqing police.
The ministry had concluded that Mr. Heywood died of cyanide poisoning after finding traces of cyanide in the blood extracted from his heart and in samples of his vomit, Xinhua said.
Defense lawyers raised questions about how the blood samples and other material evidence was stored and transferred, Xinhua said without going into further details.
Ms. Gu's defense team also asked for a psychiatric evaluation of their client, which concluded that she had been treated for chronic insomnia, anxiety, depression and paranoia in the past and used to take anxiolytics, antidepressants, sedative-hypnotic drugs and antipsychotic drugs, "but the curative effect was not enduring," Xinhua said.
It also said she developed "a certain degree of physical and psychological dependence on sedative-hypnotic drugs, which resulted in mental disorders" without elaborating.
However, Xinhua said that Ms. Gu "had a clear goal and a practical motive in committing the alleged crime" and was able to accept full criminal responsibility.
Earlier on Friday, the same court that tried Ms. Gu announced that four former police officers in Chongqing had not contested charges that they helped to cover up Mr. Heywood's murder by hiding evidence and fabricating statements. The court said the verdict and sentence in that case would be announced later too.
Prosecutors said that one of the four accused, Guo Weiguo, was deputy police chief of Chongqing at the time and had been put in charge of the investigation after Mr. Heywood's body was found, the court's statement said.
It quoted prosecutors saying Mr. Guo was given the task by Wang Lijun, who was head of Chongqing police at the time but was later dismissed from that post and fled to a U.S. consulate where he told U.S. diplomats about Ms. Gu's alleged role in the murder.
According to the court, prosecutors said Mr. Guo—who they said was close to Ms. Gu—and three other policemen involved in the investigation had suspected her of committing the crime when they examined the scene and took statements.
But they didn't register a criminal case and reported instead that Mr. Heywood suffered a "sudden death after alcohol," the court's statement quoted the prosecution as saying. They also persuaded Mr. Heywood's relatives to accept that as the cause of death and to have his corpse cremated without an autopsy, the statement said.
The observers at Ms. Gu's trial said they recalled hearing Ms. Gu's defense team trying to discredit information provided by Mr. Wang—the former Chongqing police chief—about her alleged crime.
Chinese officials haven't said how they plan to deal with Mr. Wang, who they have said was detained by Chinese security officers after leaving the consulate in February and placed under investigation.
He resigned in June as a member of parliament—a position that gave him immunity from prosecution—leading some observers to conclude that he will soon face a criminal trial, most likely for treason.
It a complex criminal case or a political enforcement trial . God bless with them ! The following is the news from ( W.S.J.) by Jeremy Page .
According to Xinhua, Ms. Gu said in her testimony to the court that while her son was studying in Britain in around 2005, Mr. Heywood had introduced himself in a letter to her and her son, Bo Guagua.
After becoming acquainted with Mr. Heywood, she recommended that he act as a middleman for an unidentified company and to participate in the initial planning of a land project, which never got started, Xinhua quoted her as saying.
Mr. Heywood later got into a dispute with her and her son over payment and other issues, Xinhua said. In court, prosecutors presented emails exchanged between Mr. Heywood and her son, showing how the dispute between them had escalated.
The prosecutors said Ms. Gu decided to kill Mr. Heywood in the belief that he had threatened her son, according to Xinhua.
"To me, that was more than a threat. It was real action that was taking place. I must fight to my death to stop the craziness of Neil Heywood," Xinhua quoted her as saying in her testimony.
Xinhua gave no further details of the dispute.
But observers in the courtroom said prosecutors had said Mr. Heywood had sent an email to Bo Guagua, asking him to pay £13 million ($20.4 million) as compensation for promised returns on a £130 million property deal that went bust.
The observers said prosecutors alleged Mr. Heywood had warned the younger Mr. Bo in the email of damaging consequences if he didn't pay.
The observers' accounts were incomplete because they weren't allowed to take notes or record the proceedings.
The younger Mr. Bo, who friends believe is living in the U.S. after graduating from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in May, declined to comment on the case in an email.
The Xinhua report said that a Bo family aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who stood trial with Ms. Gu, also confessed, saying in his testimony that he had escorted Mr. Heywood from Beijing to Chongqing where the Briton checked into the Nanshan Lijing Holiday hotel on Nov. 13, 2011.
That evening, Ms. Gu had prepared two bottles—one containing cyanide compound and another containing capsulated drugs—and had given the one containing the poison to Mr. Zhang, Xinhua said, quoting testimony from both Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang.
Read (Almost) All About It
Highlights from Xinhua's 3,300-word tale of a murder- Samples of Neil Heywood's vomit and blood showed he was poisoned.
- DNA samples on bottle caps and cup lids tied Gu Kailai and her family aide to the murder.
- Ms. Gu's lawyers asked for a psychiatric evaluation of her.
- 'What a nightmare'—Ms. Gu's description of the past months.
- Missing from the account: any mention of Bo Xilai.
When Mr. Heywood became drunk and fell over in the bathroom, Ms. Gu called in Mr. Zhang and took the glass bottle of cyanide compound he had been carrying, Xinhua said.
Mr. Zhang put Mr. Heywood on the hotel bed, and when the Briton vomited and asked for water, Ms. Gu poured the poison into a small soy sauce container that she had prepared earlier, mixing it with water, Xinhua said.
"She dripped the toxic mixture into Heywood's mouth as she was talking to him," Xinhua said.
Then she scattered the capsulated drugs on the hotel floor, making it seem as though Mr. Heywood had taken the drugs, Xinhua said.
Ms. Gu hung the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door when she left the room and told hotel waiters to leave Mr. Heywood alone, according to one waiter's testimony, Xinhua said.
It said video footage showed Ms. Gu and Mr. Zhang visiting Mr. Heywood's room on the night he was killed, and a report from the Ministry of Public Security showed that DNA samples from both alleged killers had been found on bottle caps and cup lids at the crime scene.
Xinhua says the ministry's conclusion was based on renewed examination and identification of trace evidence taken at the crime scene as well as the blood from Mr. Heywood's heart, which was collected and preserved by Chongqing police.
The ministry had concluded that Mr. Heywood died of cyanide poisoning after finding traces of cyanide in the blood extracted from his heart and in samples of his vomit, Xinhua said.
Defense lawyers raised questions about how the blood samples and other material evidence was stored and transferred, Xinhua said without going into further details.
Ms. Gu's defense team also asked for a psychiatric evaluation of their client, which concluded that she had been treated for chronic insomnia, anxiety, depression and paranoia in the past and used to take anxiolytics, antidepressants, sedative-hypnotic drugs and antipsychotic drugs, "but the curative effect was not enduring," Xinhua said.
It also said she developed "a certain degree of physical and psychological dependence on sedative-hypnotic drugs, which resulted in mental disorders" without elaborating.
However, Xinhua said that Ms. Gu "had a clear goal and a practical motive in committing the alleged crime" and was able to accept full criminal responsibility.
Earlier on Friday, the same court that tried Ms. Gu announced that four former police officers in Chongqing had not contested charges that they helped to cover up Mr. Heywood's murder by hiding evidence and fabricating statements. The court said the verdict and sentence in that case would be announced later too.
Prosecutors said that one of the four accused, Guo Weiguo, was deputy police chief of Chongqing at the time and had been put in charge of the investigation after Mr. Heywood's body was found, the court's statement said.
It quoted prosecutors saying Mr. Guo was given the task by Wang Lijun, who was head of Chongqing police at the time but was later dismissed from that post and fled to a U.S. consulate where he told U.S. diplomats about Ms. Gu's alleged role in the murder.
According to the court, prosecutors said Mr. Guo—who they said was close to Ms. Gu—and three other policemen involved in the investigation had suspected her of committing the crime when they examined the scene and took statements.
But they didn't register a criminal case and reported instead that Mr. Heywood suffered a "sudden death after alcohol," the court's statement quoted the prosecution as saying. They also persuaded Mr. Heywood's relatives to accept that as the cause of death and to have his corpse cremated without an autopsy, the statement said.
The observers at Ms. Gu's trial said they recalled hearing Ms. Gu's defense team trying to discredit information provided by Mr. Wang—the former Chongqing police chief—about her alleged crime.
Chinese officials haven't said how they plan to deal with Mr. Wang, who they have said was detained by Chinese security officers after leaving the consulate in February and placed under investigation.
He resigned in June as a member of parliament—a position that gave him immunity from prosecution—leading some observers to conclude that he will soon face a criminal trial, most likely for treason.
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