Unusually, though, she spoke fluent Mandarin. Pamela had been an ordinary expatriate schoolgirl, something of a loner, but keen on ice-skating and listening to big bands on the radio. The victim was Pamela Werner, daughter of ETC Werner, well-known in the British community as a former consul and academic sinologist. All the blood had been drained from her body and in a particularly gruesome detail, her heart was missing, ripped out through her broken rib cage. On the morning of 8 January 1937, the body of a 19-year-old girl was found at the foot of the Fox Tower in Beijing. As with the death of Heywood, the circumstances were deeply suspicious. The mixture of high politics, elite lifestyle and murder, all in the setting of a rapidly changing China, has caught the attention of millions of newspaper readers around the world, who couldn't have found Bo's city of Chongqing on a map three months ago.Īnother murder involving a Briton in China attracted popular attention three-quarters of a century ago. If the rumours being floated by the Chinese authorities are to be believed, Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, plotted to have Neil Heywood, a British businessman, killed and may even have paid thugs to force him to drink poison. T he scandal surrounding the former Chinese Politburo high flyer Bo Xilai has turned from political intrigue to something much more sinister.
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