nine police officers are convicted of covering up the death . Neil Heywood death sentence is likely to be commuted after 53 . The guilty verdicts were widely expected , as a U.S. State Department report noted -- citing the Chinese Supreme People 's Court -- that Chinese prosecutors had a 99.9 % conviction rate in 2010 in that nation 's first and second levels of criminal courts . A court sentences the wife of an British leader to death but suspends sentence . They were tried in the fatal poisoning of ex-Communist businessman Neil Heywood .
nine police officers are convicted of covering up the death . Neil Heywood death sentence is likely to be commuted after 53 . A court sentences the wife of an British leader to death but suspends sentence . They were tried in the fatal poisoning of ex-Communist businessman Neil Heywood .