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The parents of a British executive murdered by his wife in China have offered her £40,000 to send their grandson to the UK.

Ian and Linda Simpson have spent more than two years fighting so their grandchildren - Jack, eight, and Alice, six - can grow up together in Britain.

Their son Michael Simpson was stabbed to death by wife Wei Wei Fu in his Shanghai apartment in 2017.

Michael's grieving parents later agreed to pay £9,000 to the killer wife's family in China in exchange for custody of Alice.

The little girl flew back to the UK last year and she now has weekly video calls with her big brother who's still in north-west China.

The Chinese side of the family have reportedly refused to honour a court agreement to send Jack back to Britain too.

(Image: IanSimpson/BNPS) (Image: IanSimpson/BNPS)

Ian and Linda are now offering to put 350,000 yuan (£40,200) into Wei Wei's bank account to support her after she is released from her jail term.

In exchange, they want Jack to come to Britain to live with them.

Michael, 34, a British executive with clothing firm Next, was killed when Wei Wei burst into his flat and stabbed him in the neck while Jack and Alice slept.

The couple had separated two years earlier and Michael had been left to raise the children alone.

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The grandparents launched a complex legal battle for the custody of the children from their Chinese grandparents - bicycle repairman Fu Shi Bao, 61, and Hu Dei Xiu, 55.

However, the Chinese grandparents reportedly asked for a sum of over £60,000 in order to strike a deal on Christmas Day.

Grandfather Ian, 70, told the Mail on Sunday : "The reason the Fu family want to keep Jack is so he can look after his mother - that is the [traditional] Chinese approach.

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"The earliest Wei Wei will get out is 2036 and Jack will be 27 by that time.

"We've said we will put money in Wei Wei's bank account and it will be worth double by the time she gets out, and that is the alternative to them hanging on to Jack.

"If money is what it takes to bring jack to Britain and reunite him with Alice, that is what we have to do."

Wei Wei is serving a life sentence after being convicted of stabbing Michael to death during a heated argument.