China says it has ‘no information’ on detention of Patrick Devillers

Mr Devillers is thought to be in custody in the Cambodian capital’s Immigration Detention centre. An architect who once helped Mr Bo and his wife plan the street grid of Dalian, the city which they presided over in the 1990s, he is thought to have lived in Cambodia since 2005.

He works as a property investor and owns a small wooden villa he designed himself overlooking the resort of Kep. He is also believed to have married a Cambodian woman with whom he has a young son. They live in a rented two-floor villa in Phnom Penh.

While Mr Devillers was the joint founder of a company in Bournemouth with Mrs Gu in 2000, there is little sign of any connection after 2006, when Golden Map, a company reportedly run by him out of Hong Kong, bought a flat in Coleherne Court, the apartment block in South Kensington where Diana, Princess of Wales, lived before her marriage.

Mrs Gu is thought to have stayed there and her son, Bo Guagua, may also have used it while he studied at Harrow and then at Oxford university.

Neither Cambodia nor China have publicly charged Mr Devillers with a crime. Mr Bo and his wife, meanwhile, have not been seen in public since mid-March, when he was removed from his Communist party positions and put under investigation.

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