Neil Heywood's widow 'silenced by Chinese police' Nevertheless, following the disclosure of the crime by Wang Lijun, the former police chief in Chongqing, to the United States consulate in the city of Chengdu in February, the United Kingdom called for a fresh investigation, a request that China has agreed to. When he died last November, Mr Heywood's body was cremated before an autopsy could be carried out. However, a wealth of information is still available about his final hours. The British businessman is thought to have flown to Chongqing sometime after he attended a motor show in Beijing on November 11. At Chongqing's Jianbei (CORR) airport, a glass and steel horseshoe-shaped terminal around 25 miles from the city centre, staff said all public areas were blanketed by closed-circuit television cameras that would have captured his arrival. Limousine companies at the airport said they had no record of a booking in Mr Heywood's name in November. If he travelled downtown in a taxi, however, he would have been caught again on record: each of Chongqing's yellow taxis has a small CCTV camera installed above the rear mirror, feeding footage to the city's public security agencies. The hotel where Mr Heywood stayed is still unknown. Chongqing's major hotels, including both the Hilton and Sheraton, denied that he had stayed there. The Sheraton, however, had hosted private parties for Mr Bo on "several occasions" in October, November and December last year, according to one waiter at the hotel's banqueting suites. Whichever hotel Mr Heywood stayed in, however, he would again have been caught on CCTV, which would show when he had entered his room, and whether he was alone or with company. According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr Heywood had nervously flown to Chongqing after being summoned for a summit with Mr Bo and his family, who he had known since the late 1990s. Mr Heywood is thought to have helped ease Mr Bo's son, Guagua, into Harrow. However, an investigation into Mr Bo's public engagements during the period when Mr Heywood was in Chongqing suggests that the politician may have been too busy to meet the British businessman personally, as he entertained a series of visits from some of China's most senior officials.