Gu Kailai Trial: Bo Xilai's Wife Suffered From Depression, China Media Say

Gu Kailai Reportedly Suffered From Depression
This video image taken from CCTV shows Gu Kailai, second left, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, being taken into the Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei Thursday Aug. 9, 2012. According to testimony Thursday in one of China's highest-profile murder trials in years, Gu lured British businessman Neil Heywood to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison. The secretive trial of Gu and a household aide, who are accused of murdering Bo family associate Heywood, ended in less than a day at the court. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN) CHINA OUT, TV OUT
This video image taken from CCTV shows Gu Kailai, second left, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, being taken into the Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei Thursday Aug. 9, 2012. According to testimony Thursday in one of China's highest-profile murder trials in years, Gu lured British businessman Neil Heywood to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison. The secretive trial of Gu and a household aide, who are accused of murdering Bo family associate Heywood, ended in less than a day at the court. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN) CHINA OUT, TV OUT

BEIJING — Chinese state media say the wife of the disgraced former Communist Party boss of Chongging was depressed and dependent on medication but was aware of what she was doing when she murdered a British businessman last year.

The official Xinhua News Agency in a report Friday of the trial of Gu Kailai said despite the medical problems Gu "had a clear goal and a practical motive in committing the alleged crime."

Gu's arrest and the ouster of her husband Bo Xilai as Chongqing party chief in March sparked the biggest political turbulence in China since the putdown of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Her tightly orchestrated trial this week was a step toward resolving the scandal ahead of the party's once-in-a-decade leadership transition this fall.

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