Mother's statement

Surprisingly, Mr Heywood’s family, including his mother, still choose to believe his death was due to a heart attack.

‘We could have hardly have been closer,’ she said. ‘

We talked several times a week on the phone and If anything was worrying him he would have told me.

‘It is distressing having it all brought up again after all these months. As far as I am concerned, it was, and still is, a closed case.

‘The Foreign Office is looking into it again but not at our request. It is heartbreaking to even think there was foul play involved. I went to China often to see him. I still do see my daughter-in-law and grandchildren, and they were always very happy.

‘As far as I’m concerned he died of a heart attack. It’s tragic, but nothing more.’

The truth, of course, seems to be far more chilling.

http://www.chariweb.com/2012/04/tangled-life-and-sinister-death-of.html