China
recommends life term for wife of disgraced official Bo Xilai
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[December 14, 2015]
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing court
has recommended a suspended death sentence for the wife of disgraced
Politburo member Bo Xilai be commuted to life in prison, after she
showed repentance and committed no further crime, Chinese media said on
Monday.
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Gu Kailai was sentenced in 2012 for murdering British businessman
Neil Heywood the previous year, kicking off China's most sensational
political scandal in years.
A suspended death sentence is normally commuted to life in jail. The
Beijing High Court is now making a formal recommendation for that,
said state radio, which carried the court statement on its website.
"The aforementioned criminal has recently certainly shown
repentance," the court said, adding that Gu has not committed any
crime since.
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Reuters was not able to immediately reach the court or family
members for comment.
Bo was ousted as Communist Party boss of the southwestern metropolis
of Chongqing and from the party's decision-making Politburo in 2012.
He was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for corruption and abuse
of power.
In a separate statement, the Beijing High Court recommended the
suspended death sentence of Liu Zhijun, the disgraced former
railways minister, be commuted to life in prison.
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Liu was prosecuted for corruption and abuse of power in 2013.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Megha Rajagopalan; Editing by
Clarence Fernandez and Ryan Woo)
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