US banker murder case enthrals Hong Kong

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Jonathan Watts in Shenzhen
Thursday June 9, 2005
The Guardian

A wealthy American banker was drugged with a spiked strawberry milkshake and then bludgeoned to death by his wife, a court in Hong Kong heard yesterday, at the start of one of the most talked-about murder cases in the territory's recent history.

Prosecutors accused Nancy Kissel of murdering her husband Robert on the day he was planning to discuss divorce proceedings after he suspected her of having an affair with a TV repairman while they were separated during the Sars crisis.

Mrs Kissel has pleaded not guilty.
Mr Kissel was a prominent member of Hong Kong's expatriate community and was a senior executive for the investment bank Merrill Lynch.

Peter Chapman, the prose cuting counsel, told the jury that Mrs Kissel drugged her husband on or around November 2 2003 by "lacing a milkshake with a cocktail of sedative drugs ...".

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