Rumors From CN Websites + The Bo Clan

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(1) Hazel Knowles and Jonathan Petre, Briton in China Murder Riddle 'Poisoned by Cyanide Drops;' Sensational new claims about expat's mystery death in hotel; Neil Heywood was 'poisoned to cover up adultery and £800m wire transfers;' Websites claim Chinese official has confessed that he prepared the poison. Sunday Mail, Apr 15, 2012.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ ... -cyanide-drops.html
("The extraordinary accounts – published on respected Mandarin-language websites yesterday – claimed to expose a sex-and-money scandal behind China's biggest political crisis in a generation")

My comment:
(a) I just do not believe there is "respectable mandarin-language website" in China--not to mention the plural form. (Do not get me wrong. None in Taiwan, either.)
(b) The rumors have circulated for quite some time. They are not new, or substantiated, either.

(2) Tania Branigan, Chinese Police Seek Blogger Who Revealed Death of Neil Heywood. Guardian, Apr 14, 2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/201 ... ywood-death-blogger
(a mystery text message received by the journalist [CHU Chaoxin] * * * -from an unknown number – said only that Heywood had been killed and did not give further details or mention either Bo or Gu")


(3)
(a) Patrick Sawer, Josie Ensor and Richard Eden, Gilded Lifestyle of Murder Suspect's Son Bo Guagua. Sunday Telegraph, Apr 15, 2012.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ ... -son-Bo-Guagua.html

Note:
(i) Papplewick prep school

Preparatory school (United Kingdom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparatory_school_(United_Kingdom)
(a preparatory school (usually abbreviated to prep school) is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-charging, secondary independent schools; Most British prep schools are primarily day schools, but many also take boarders; section 1 List of British Preparatory schools: Papplewick School, Ascot[in Berkshire])  
(ii) Monitor Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_Group
(a management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with ties to Harvard Business School)
(iii) Pippa (given name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_(given_name)
(a nickname for Philippa)
(iv)
(A) Lara (name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_(name)
(B) Larissa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa_(name)
(A Russian short form is Lara, made famous through Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago")
Eton College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College
(a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18; founded in 1440 by King Henry VI; located in Eton, near Windsor in [Berkshire,] England)  
(v) PIMCO
(In Ukrainian, and Russian other languages, the given name is a short form for Larissa)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIMCO
(Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC (commonly called PIMCO), is an investment firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California; Founded 1971)
(vi) peer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer
(A member of the peerage, a system of honours or nobility in various countries)
(vii)
(A) Bournemouth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournemouth
(a town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England; With Poole and Christchurch, Bournemouth forms the South East Dorset conurbation; at the mouth of the Bourne River)
(B) River Bourne, Dorset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Bourne,_Dorset
(taking its name simply from Middle English bourn or burn, a small stream)
(viii) Companies House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companies_House

(b) Richard Eden, Downing Street Mandarin Lord Powell Was 'Mentor’ to Son of China Murder Suspect. Sunday Telegraph, Apr 15, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ ... murder-suspect.html
(photo)


(4) Michael Forsythe, Natasha Khan and Ben Richardson, China Murder Suspect’s Sisters Ran $126 Million Empire. Bloomberg, Apr 13, 2012
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... usiness-empire.html
("Through Hitoro, Wangjiang and Wangning, who retained her Chinese citizenship, owned Beijing Jiahua Investment Consulting Co. An Internet search shows the address in room 1430 of a building southwest of Tiananmen Square. The room numbers on the fourth floor of the budget hotel stop at 1423, a visit shows")