HK 鈥榤ilkshake鈥 killer fails in last appeal against conviction
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AMERICAN Nancy Kissel, serving a life sentence in a Hong Kong jail for the “milkshake” murder of her Merrill Lynch banker husband, failed in her bid yesterday for a final appeal against her conviction.
A panel of three judges on the city’s Court of Final Appeal rejected Kissel’s application — the end of a long legal road that began with her first conviction in 2005.
Kissel, aged 50, who attended the hearing in a wheelchair, reacted stoically to the panel’s decision, said her lawyer.
“She was philosophical about the decision against her,” leading counsel Edward Fitzgerald said. “We ... obviously hoped that we would get leave, but we obviously respect the Court of Final Appeal’s decision.”
The panel of judges said they would give their reasons later, Hong Kong broadcaster RTHK reported.
The 2003 murder gripped Hong Kong’s business and expatriate communities with its tales of domestic violence, rough sex and adultery that cast a shadow over the high-flying lifestyles of financial professionals in Hong Kong.
Kissel has been in jail since 2005 when she was found guilty of murdering her husband after giving him a drug-laced milkshake and then clubbing him to death with a metal ornament in their luxury home.
She was convicted for a second time in 2011, following a retrial.
Fitzgerald said it remained a possibility for Kissel to be transferred to the United States but that if she remained in Hong Kong he would hope she would be considered for release after 15 years.
During her retrial in 2011, Kissel had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, with the defence arguing she suffers from depression and had been provoked by years of sexual and physical abuse by her husband.
(Reuters)
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