Sacked Chinese politician's wife 'admits' to killing British businessman with cyanide

Beijing, Apr 25 (ANI): Bo Xilai's wife, Gu Kailai has confessed to the police that she was present in the hotel room when British businessman Neil Heywood was poisoned.

"I did it," The Telegraph quoted Gu, as admitting to the Chongqing police and confessed that she was responsible for the murder.

Wang Lijun, the former chief of police in Chongqing, who fled the town fearing for his life, gave his account of her alleged confession to diplomats at the US consulate in the nearby city of Chengdu in February.

According to The Telegraph, Wang revealed that Heywood, a fixer with decades of experience in China and a family friend of Bo and his wife, was held down in a hotel room in Chongqing and forced to drink cyanide.

"Gu said 'I did it' three times to Wang," a diplomatic source with knowledge of Wang's account was reported, as saying.

"It was a gruesome scene, Heywood spat the cyanide out and they had to give him more," he added.

Reports claim that Heywood, Gu and her son, Bo Guagua, are said to have had a close relationship until it ended following a quarrel over an "economic" matter, which was finally followed by Heywood's murder. (ANI)