SHOCKED staff discovered their building is the alleged love nest of a British businessman and a Chinese politician’s wife accused of killing him.

Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in Chongqing in China last November and is being reported as having been romantically linked to Gu Kailai, who is married to former Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai Mrs Gu has been named as a suspect and it is being reported that she was seen with Mr Heywood when she lived in a top-floor flat in Keystone House in Exeter Road, close to the BIC.

The Daily Echo told how Mrs Gu was in Bournemouth from 2000 to 2003 and Bournemouth businessman Philip Oram, who bought the property, has revealed how he saw her when he looked around in 2002 before buying it in 2003.

“I bought it when she moved out,” he said.

“She was there when I looked around and I saw her sitting in the kitchen.”

Mr Oram said he asked for the property to be empty before buying it and that was why she had left before he owned it for two years.

Mrs Gu’s son Bo Guagua is also said to have been staying at the flat when his mother was reported to having been seen there with Mr Heywood.

Richard Starley, a businessman who used to own the flat and take her out for meals, told the Daily Telegraph: “She was a very nice lady.

“She was always very well dressed and extremely charming. All this rubbish that she is embroiled in some kind of murder to me just does not ring true.”

Giuseppe Flachi, 70, who runs nearby Valentino restaurant, told the paper he cooked lunch for Mrs Gu most days.

The apartment is the only residential part of Keystone House, with the rest of the property being used by businesses.

Adam Jackson-Gane and Charlotte Powney at ClearSkies Natural Energy said they had received visits from CBS America, the New York Times and a Hong Kong magazine.