British PM Offered to Assist Probe into Heywood's Death

Follow us on TWITTER:   / cnforbiddennews   Like us on FACEBOOK:   / chinaforbiddennews   The turmoil raised by Wang Lijun's fleeing to the U.S. Consulate is not confined to within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system itself On 17th April, British Prime Minister David Cameron and British Foreign Secretary William Hague asked the CCP regime to make a full and proper investigation into British businessman Neil Heywood. In meeting with CCP propaganda chief Li Changchun, Cameron offered to assist the regime in investigating Heywood's death. Li said he was grateful for the offer, but without clearly expressing to accept Cameron's proposal. On 17th April, David Cameron met Li Changchun, a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee. Cameron stated that China's investigation into Heywood's death should observe due process. Cameron emphasized his hope that the CCP shall properly address the concerns raised by Heywood's suspicious death. British intelligence agencies were reported to have been criticized for their intelligence failure over Heywood's case. On 17th April, in his echoing Parliament's questioning over the Foreign Office's handling over Heywood's suspicious death, William Hague revealed that the UK has four times demanded China to conduct an investigation into Heywood's death. Hague said that the UK wants a full investigation by China and shall observe due process, free from political interference. This shall expose the truth behind this tragedy to ensure that justice is served. Neil Heywood, 41, was found dead in Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel in Chongqing last November. The British consulate was informed by the CCP Chongqing official that Heywood died of "excessive drinking". However, the data handed to the U.S. consulate by Wang Lijun, former Chongqing vice mayor, reportedly shows that Gu Kailai, wife of the CCP former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, ordered to have Heywood poisoned with potassium cyanide. UK's Daily Telegraph reported on 16th April that Heywood's body was cremated without an autopsy the next day. "But Mr. Wang is believed to have gathered his own evidence in the 36 hours between the discovery of the body and the announcement of his death to British authorities." After three months of quiet investigation, Wang found that "his evidence pointed to Mr. Bo's wife". Beijing-based lawyer Mo Shaoping notes that the fair judgment of a case needs to observe a few principles. Mo Shaoping: "One is the principle of due process of law, that is, the presumption of innocence; the second is having to follow the principle of equality before the law; the third one is that the defendant should be given a full guarantee of rights to hire lawyers. In this way, the final conclusion of the investigation could be deemed a fair verdict." Political critic Tie Liu points out that it is hard to achieve a fair trial under the existing CCP ruling system. Tie Liu: "It's very hard to go through proceedings to handle cases. Isn't Bo Xilai proposing to hold a public trial now? (But) they won't try the case in public. This is because a lot of crimes committed by Bo Xilai could be connected with CCP top officials. Like corruption, every CCP official is involved in corruption; and murder, who hasn't had suspicions connected to murder? Reuters quoted Chongqing sources saying that the evidence of killing Heywood caused a conflict between Bo and Wang. Yet it is deemed an excuse to investigate Bo Xilai, not the prime reason of Wang's falling out with Bo, said Zhang Tianliang. Zhang Tianliang, visiting professor of George Mason University, has accurately predicted the CCP's political trend in 20 times after the Wang Lijun Incident broke out. Professor Zhang analyzes in his articles that the falling out of Bo and Wang is linked to very intricate dark secrets of the CCP's infighting for power. Commentators in China say that the cut-in of Heywood's case should be the first step for Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao to take down Jiang's faction. While the "after effects" of Wang Lijun's incident are far from over. 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/