Widow of Neil Heywood 'gagged by Chinese police' Asked what Lulu's views were after the revelation implicating Gu in the scandal, another source close to the family said: "It's still difficult to believe. It was absolutely not necessary. The two families were very close. She (Gu) was the godmother of (Heywood's) children. Heywood's 11-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son attend an international school in Beijing. The scandal is potentially the most divisive the Party has faced since Zhao Ziyang was sacked as Party chief in 1989 for opposing the brutal army crackdown on student-led demonstrations for democracy centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Before his fall, Mr Bo, 62 was widely seen as a contender for a post in China's top leadership committee, which will be decided later this year. He was suspended this week from the Party Politburo and Central Committee and is being questioned by anti-graft investigators. His wife Gu, who turns 52 this year, has yet to be indicted. They have disappeared from public view. Their son, Bo Guagua, is studying at Harvard University. The scandal came to light after Mr Bo's estranged vice-mayor, Wang Lijun, sought asylum at the U.S. Consulate in nearby Chengdu in February, after confronting Bo with his suspicions about Heywood's death. China's propaganda machine has gone full blast to discredit the charismatic and contentious Bo, who until his ouster had been eyeing a seat in the Party's nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, China's pinnacle of power. State media have urged the Party's 80 million members, civil servants, the 2.3-million People's Liberation Army and public to fall in line and not to question the findings of the case, apparently to avoid a split in their ranks. Mr Bo's sympathisers were convinced he was the victim of a power struggle. Before his downfall, Mr Bo said during the annual full session of parliament in March that unspecified people were "pouring filth" on him and his family. In March, Heywood's bereaved relatives in Beijing and London, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters in separate interviews they did not suspect foul play at the time and denied media speculation that Heywood was cremated against their wishes. Chongqing police had initially attributed death to cardiac arrest due to overconsumption of alcohol, but the British Embassy in Beijing asked China to reopen investigations into the case. Heywood's family said then he was not a heavy drinker, but a chain smoker and that his father, Peter, also died of a heart attack after drinks over dinner at his London home in 2004 at age 63.