A court in eastern China has rejected an appeal by ousted senior politician Bo Xilai and upheld his life sentence on charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power.
In an announcement carried on its Weibo microblog, the official Xinhua news agency said that the high court in the eastern province of Shandong, where Bo was originally tried, had rejected his appeal. It gave no further details.
Once a rising star in China's leadership circles, Bo was jailed for life in September after a dramatic fall from grace that shook the ruling Communist Party.
His career was stopped short last year by a murder scandal in which his wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted of poisoning a British businessman, Neil Heywood, who had been a family friend.
The ruling is the latest development in one of China's most politically charged trials in decades.
But it comes as no surprise, with many political analysts saying such an outcome was predetermined by Communist Party leaders keen to put Bo away long enough to prevent him from making a comeback.
Bo Xilai's trial took place in the eastern city of Jinan last month President Xi Jinping, who took office in March, will have wanted the Bo affair settled because the next few weeks are critical for his government.
At a closed-door party plenum next month, Xi will push for more economic reforms and he needs unstinting support from the party's elite 200-member Central Committee.
Bo, 64, who was Communist Party chief of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, mounted an unexpectedly fiery defence during his trial, denouncing testimony against him by his wife as the ravings of a mad woman hoping to have her own sentence reduced.
He repeatedly said that he was not guilty of any of the charges, although he admitted making some bad decisions and shaming his country by his handling of former Chongqing police chief, Wang Lijun, who first told Bo that Gu had probably murdered Mr Heywood.
Wang, who fled to the US consulate in the nearby city of Chengdu in February last year after confronting Bo with evidence that Gu was involved in the murder, was also jailed last year for covering up the crime.
Bo's wife Gu Kailai was found guilty of killing Briton Neil Heywood According to Chinese law, Bo will not be able to lodge any further formal appeals, and while he can submit a "petition" to China's supreme court it is not required to take further action.
Sky's China correspondent Mark Stone said: "It is possibly the full stop that everyone has been waiting for at the end of this very long, protracted saga.
"This was a man who was once tipped for the very, very top of the Chinese government. He was to be, possibly one of the seven men on what's known as the standing committee of the politburo - the men who run the country, but his fall from grace was dramatic."
Bo cultivated a following through his populist, quasi-Maoist policies.
His policies in Chongqing won him supporters across China, but his openly ambitious approach also alienated other top party leaders, who saw it as harking back to a bygone era of strongman rule.
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