Love triangle ‘real reason’ for Wang’s defection bid
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The corruption trial of disgraced Party official Bo Xilai ended yesterday with Bo describing a love triangle involving his wife and former right-hand man — both key witnesses against him — as he made last-ditch efforts to redeem his reputation.
In testimony, Bo denounced his wife Bogu Kailai as crazy and his former police chief Wang Lijun as dishonest, as he has sought to portray himself as an official who worked too hard to be able to scrutinize his family’s affairs and who was surrounded by conniving, duplicitous people.
“He (Wang) was secretly in love with Bogu Kailai, his emotions were tangled and he could not extricate himself,” Bo told the court yesterday.
Bo said Wang tried to defect to the US consulate early last year, not in a dispute over the investigation into the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood — as was commonly understood — but because he had confessed his feelings to Bogu and feared Bo’s rage.
“He knew my personality, he’d trespassed on my family and violated my basic emotions, this is the real reason he decided to defect. Wang Lijun in reality is trying to muddy the waters,” Bo told the court.
He also said that his wife and Wang were as close as “glue and lacquer” and that they had a “very special relationship; I was frustrated by that.”
Wang earlier told the court he went to the Americans because he feared for his safety after telling Bo that Bogu had murdered Neil Heywood.
Bo thanked the court for letting him fully defend himself.
“I know there is no escape from my fate and sometimes I was weak at heart. Faced by imprisonment, I have mixed feelings and the only thing I have is the rest of my life,” he said.
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