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July 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mrs Gu will appear before a panel of three judges at the Hefei Intermediate
People’s Court. She is unlikely to be found innocent: 98 per cent of
criminal cases in China end with a guilty verdict.
On Friday, scholars debated whether it was even legal to hold the case in
Hefei.
Trials involving China’s senior politicians are often held in what are seen to
be “neutral” provinces. But the Chinese Criminal Procedure Law
states that the trial should be heard either in the city where the crime was
committed, or where the defendant resides.
Hefei is also the power base of the Chinese Supreme Court chief, Wang
Shengjun. Mr Wang is a close ally of Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, but
not of Zhou Yongkang, who is thought to be Bo Xilai’s chief supporter.
Six judges at the Hefei court said they had not been informed about the case,
and that they were not sure who would preside.
Shen Zhigeng, a prominent lawyer who was linked to Mrs Gu’s case, said he was
not defending her, but that the state had appointed her defence. A British
embassy spokesman said diplomats had requested access to the trial and were
awaiting a decision.
Mrs Gu is now accused of having poisoned Mr Heywood, a long-standing friend of
her family, because he threatened the “personal security” of her
only child, Bo Guagua.
However, while it is likely that Mr Heywood and her son met last summer, the
younger Bo then returned to Harvard more than two months before Mr Heywood’s
death, leaving a question mark over how his safety could have been
threatened.
Over the summer before the alleged murder, Bo Guagua organised a tour for his
fellow students at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
At the end of June and beginning of July, both Mr Bo and Mr Heywood were in
Chongqing.
Mr Bo was confirmed by sources in Chongqing at a banquet in honour of Henry
Kissinger, the former American secretary of State, on a luxury river cruise.
Mr Heywood may also have been at the dinner; he was in Chongqing for a
series of events, as were Lord Powell of Bayswater and Peter Mandelson.
In addition, as the son of a prominent Communist party leader, Mr Bo is likely
to have had a security detail while he was in China. His fellow students
were surprised when they were greeted in Chongqing by a police escort.
Additional reporting by Valentina Luo
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