AP/ August 16, 2012, 11:42 PM

China to announce murder trial verdict on Mon.

In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, Gu Kailai (left) wife of then Chinaese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai attends a memorial ceremony for Bo's father Bo Yibo, a late revolutionary leader considered one of communist China's founding fathers, at a military hospital in Beijing.

In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, Gu Kailai (left) wife of then Chinaese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai attends a memorial ceremony for Bo's father Bo Yibo, a late revolutionary leader considered one of communist China's founding fathers, at a military hospital in Beijing. / AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

(AP) BEIJING - A Chinese court will deliver a verdict in the murder trial of ousted politician Bo Xilai's wife on Monday.

Beijing attorney Li Xiaolin said Friday that the court in the eastern city of Hefei where the trial of Gu Kailai and a Bo family aide was held last week will announce a judgment Monday.

Li has been hired by the family of the aide, Zhang Xiaojun.

Gu is accused of killing British businessman Neil Heywood after having a dispute over money and worrying that he had threatened her son's safety. State media reports say Gu confessed to the murder. Zhang has been named as Gu's accessory to Heywood's murder.

Gu's tightly orchestrated trial is a step toward resolving the political turbulence before the country's once-a-decade leadership transition this fall.

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jefforsythe says:
The truth of the matter is that this guy Bo is just another brutal Chinese Communist Party gangster who was trying to hide his heinous acts of organ harvesting of living adults and children, basically Falun Gong practitioners, Heywood had been helping him to launder his money and was just about to spill the beans. There are approx. one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners living in mainland China who have been made to hide their beliefs in truthfulness, goodness and tolerance because of a brutal attempted genocide by the Chinese Communist Party.
With so many practitioners from all walks of life, including the cruel Party itself, Falun Gong has a clear picture of exactly what is going on in China, socially as well as politically. Falun Gong is a heart and mind cultivation practice which has no political ambitions whatsoever, but is just trying to inform the World of the cruelty of the CCP. Thank you for your consideration.
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