The police chief at the centre of China's biggest political scandal for years sought a meeting with UK officials hours before he fled to a nearby US mission, the BBC has learnt.
Wang Lijun did not show up as arranged at the UK consulate in Chongqing, UK government sources told the BBC.
Instead he allegedly tried to defect at the US mission in nearby Chengdu.
The events led to the removal from office of his boss, Bo Xilai, one of China's leading political figures.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing says the events triggered the biggest scandal to engulf China's ruling Communist Party in recent years.
In recent days it has been claimed that Wang Lijun had concerns that a British citizen, Neil Heywood, who died in China last year, had not died accidentally.
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