As the high-flying Communist Party chief of Chongqing and a former Commerce Minister, Bo Xilai had been expected by many to take a seat on the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee in the Chinese leadership transition this autumn.

But Bo’s political fortunes came to an abrupt end after his police chief Wang Lijun fled into the US consulate in February, and revealed that Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, had murdered British business partner Neil Heywood.  Weeks later, the 62-year-old 'princeling' of Chinese politics was dismissed as Chongqing party chief, then suspended from the party's Central Committee and its Politburo, pending investigation for 'serious disciplinary violations'.

Bo's wife was given a suspended death sentence in August 2012. Wang received a prison term of 15 years on September 24 for crimes including attempted defection, abuse of power and taking bribes. On September 28, the Communist Party announced that it had stripped Bo of his Party membership and all official roles, and that he would be handed over to judicial authorities to face justice. 

Navarro did not know the people in the photos, nor the dates and locations they were taken, and based his analysis purely on facial expression and body language.