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Ms Gu, whose husband, Bo Xilai, was purged from the Politburo in April, is unlikely to be executed. Despite a fondness for capital punishment, the Communist Party rarely applies the death penalty to its own elite.
As with Madame Mao, Ms Gu’s sentence is likely to be commuted to life in prison. Jiang Qing was released on medical parole a decade after her trial (and within a few days was reported to have committed suicide).
Ms Gu, the court was told, suffers from depression and paranoia. She could be similarly freed in nine years, according to Dui Hua, an American NGO that monitors China’s legal processes.
In a trial that lasted only a day, Ms Gu admitted that she had plotted the murder of Neil Heywood, a British businessman with connections to the Bo family.
She apparently poisoned him with cyanide last November in a hotel room in Chongqing, the region of which her husband was then party chief.
Ms Gu said she believed that Mr Heywood was threatening her son, Bo Guagua, following a collapsed business deal. Ms Gu’s aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who admitted helping her carry out the murder, was given a nine-year prison sentence.
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