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In an 11-minute video recorded on August 10 and played in court on Friday, Gu Kailai looked nervous, spoke in a soft voice, and had her hands tightly clasped together in front of her on the desk for virtually the whole duration of the interview.

Wearing a casual black-and-white striped top and sporting short cropped hair, she looked thinner than her previous public appearance during her trial for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

When quizzed about whether Bo was aware of the largesse from Xu Ming, she hesitated to provide a certain answer - initially saying "he should have known" given the close relationship the businessman had with the family.

Asked if she had told her husband directly about Xu Ming's money, she first said "I guess it counts as though I've told him", before giving a more definitive "yes, I told him", when probed further.

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Gu registered a company in 2000 with Devillers to buy the six-bedroom villa in the French Riviera, with a view to secure the financial future of, Gu Kailai and Bo Xilai's son, Bo Guagua.

Gu, wanting to distance herself from the company, transferred her half of the company to Neil Heywood in 2007.

But by early-2011, Heywood and Gu had began to fall out, and Gu wanted to transfer the 50 per cent share to the girlfriend of Xu Ming to manage.

Devillers said this prompted Heywood to demand 1.4 million pounds or he would "expose everything".

"I've never seen Neil so angry before," Devillers said. "He was saying he was lied to and was fooled by her."

It was during this period that Gu said she began to fear for her son's safety, which ultimately led her to murder Heywood on November 15, and in turn set in train China's worst political scandal in a generation. - Sydney Morning Herald

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