By Peter Simpson In Beijing PUBLISHED: 04:47 EST, 27 March 2012 | UPDATED: 05:32 EST, 27 March 2012 Conspiracy: China has been urged to probe speculation that Neil Heywood was poisoned The Foreign Office has asked China to probe the sudden death of a Briton who had close links to a controversial high-ranking Communist Party official. Neil Heywood, 41, died last November and Chinese officials claimed his death was caused by excessive drinking. But his concerned friends and other members of the British community in the south western metropolis of Chongqing fear he may have been deliberately poisoned.
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Friends fear consultant, 41, was deliberately poisoned
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Near tee totaller's death by 'excess alcohol' doubted
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Neil Heywood credited with getting security chief Bo Xilai's son place at Harrow and Oxford
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Chinese mafia-busting campaigner now accused of abusing position
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