A4 Thursday, August 22, 2013 Thursday, August 22, 2013 A5 FOCUS FOCUS Bo Xilai: his descent into darkness After heady years spent climbing the party ladder, the colourful life of Bo Xilai will be judged by what happens in a grim Shandong court ................................................ thought about fleeing, Xinhua enrolled at New York’s Keith Zhai reported. Columbia Law School.
[email protected] Gu and Wang had lunch in a As he spoke of his anger, Bo private room at police leaned back and laughed. “Not headquarters on February 4. only my son, but my wife and I January, 2012 Waiters outside the room heard have no personal assets … my No 36 Zhongshansi Road, a Gu crying. wife closed her law firm 20 years compound of rust-coloured On February 6, Wang sought ago to avoid gossip … I’m very villas secluded behind thick refuge in the US consulate in touched and feel deeply sorry for foliage in downtown Chongqing Chengdu , where he told her sacrifice.” , is easily ignored from the US diplomats about Gu’s The details of the mysterious street. And that is just the way involvement in Heywood’s phone call remain unclear, but the people who live there like it. murder. some insiders say it was from his There are no names on the Wang’s dramatic escape brother Bo Xicheng, telling him brick houses and the armed made headlines around the Gu had been detained. soldiers at the gate ensure what world the next day. But Bo Five days later, then-premier goes on inside stays there.