China Policemen Admit Trying To Cover-up Heywood Murder: Court

Police officers switch guard shifts outside the Hefei Intermediate People's Court in HefeiHEFEI, China (Reuters) – Four Chinese policemen admitted on Friday to attempting to protect the wife of powerful politician Bo Xilai from suspicion of the murder of a British businessman, an official said, in another damaging development for the ex-Politburo member. The official's statement, given after an 11-hour hearing barred to non-official media, formally establishes for the first time that there was an attempted cover-up of the murder of businessman Neil Heywood and comes just a day after Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, chose not to contest a charge of poisoning Heywood. …

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