The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and
fixer who had helped
get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a
business deal; that he threatened
to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't
get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put
down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform
to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing
to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted
to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines
to avoid being implicated.