November 8 The South China Morning Post reveals Robert Kissel has been bludgeoned to death. Nancy Kissel is charged with murder

November 14 Kissel is absent from court for a second time as she is still in hospital. The judge orders her children's passports to be held by the United States consulate

February 6, 2005 Sunday Morning Post exclusive: Kissel has been on bail since a private hearing in November 2004

June 3 Kissel's murder trial is set to run for eight weeks

June 7 The trial opens to a packed public gallery. Government prosecutor Peter Chapman SC tells the jury Kissel drugged her husband with sedatives before repeatedly striking his head with a heavy metal ornament

June 8 Mr Tanzer reveals he passed out after drinking Nancy Kissel's 'special' milkshake

June 10 Kissel's lover, Michael Del Priore, is exposed by a private investigator, Rocco Gatta

June 22 Mr Noh provides an insider's account of a marriage on the rocks

July 21 It comes to light that Robert Kissel had searched websites on gay pornography and sex services in Taiwan shortly before he went on a three-day trip there

August 1 Kissel claims she had to endure night after night of sexual and physical assault as cocaine, whisky, power and money changed her husband

August 2 Kissel says she tried to commit suicide and took up with television repairman Michael Del Priore as an escape

August 4 Prosecutor Peter Chapman begins his cross-examination of Kissel in the Court of First Instance, asking her: 'Do you accept that you killed Robert Kissel?' She replies: 'Yes'

August 8 Kissel screams out in court: 'I still love my husband'

August 22 After three weeks, the defence rests its case

August 26 The prosecution says Kissel killed her husband to be with her lover and avoid a messy divorce after he told her he was going to begin proceedings