In 2009 Mr Abhisit promised to reinvestigate the murders.
Minmetals, clearly shocked by the breach of etiquette, summoned journalists the following day to issue a furious rebuttal of the allegation made by the newspaper, Economic Information Daily that two mines controlled by a Minmetals subsidiary had polluted Mr Hou's village.Xinhua sent out a team to reinvestigate the story.
Meanwhile, the British government requested that China reinvestigate the death of Neil Heywood, a British businessman and family friend of Mr Bo, in China last November.
Supporters hope a fresh inquest will finally force German police to reinvestigate why a British Jew died in mysterious circumstances after spending five days with a far-right political cult led by a convicted fraudster who is known for his virulent anti-Semitic views.
"I have no authority to withdraw the charges levelled against them, but I will ask the Sindh chief secretary and police to reinvestigate the legal aspect of the case, before referring it to the court for a further decision," Mr Ashraf said, according to a statement released by his spokesman.
Police in Wiesbaden have refused to reinvestigate, or reopen their files.
"And now, six months later, the IPCC has finally announced it is to reinvestigate his death.
Amanda Redman was cast as the long-suffering Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, the police officer heading a new Metropolitan Police unit, the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), with Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Dennis Waterman as the retired officers recruited to reinvestigate crimes.
These projects have an afterlife online, where amateur detectives reinvestigate both the crimes and the documentaries themselves.
Horn and Leonard also met with senior members of the Cook County state's attorney's office, who promised to reinvestigate Hood's case, even as they refused to vacate the charges against him.
The Kings County District Attorney's office was planning to reinvestigate the McCallum case.
