About Neil Heywood
Neil Heywood was an English businessman. The great-grandson of John Barr Affleck, Britain's Consul General in Tianjin from 1935 to 1938, Heywood lived and worked in China from the early 1990s and became associated with the Bo Xilai family. In 2011, he was murdered by Bo's wife Gu Kailai in Chongqing after a business dispute. His death sparked a major political scandal and precipitated Bo's downfall in 2012. Heywood was then working at a Dalian English-language school, and helped Bo's youngest son gain admission to Harrow. He was also hired occasionally by Hakluyt & Company, a consultancy co-founded by a former officer of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
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