CHINA'S Communist Party yesterday suspended former high-flying politician Bo Xilai from its top ranks and named his wife, Gu Kailai, as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman, in a move likely to rattle leadership succession plans.
The decision to banish Mr Bo from the Central Committee and its Politburo, which effectively ends the career of China's brashest and most controversial politician, and the confirmation his wife is suspected in the murder of Briton Neil Heywood were reported by the official Xinhua news agency.
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