Kissel refused to visit storeroom, court told

When a police officer asked Nancy Kissel whether she would go with police to a storeroom where her husband's body was later found, she said she 'would never go there', a court heard yesterday.

Chief Inspector Yuen Shing-kit testified at the Court of First Instance where Kissel, 46, is on retrial for allegedly murdering her husband, Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel, 40, on or about November 2, 2003, and having his body removed to a storeroom she rented.

Under questioning by acting senior assistant director of public prosecutions Anna Lai Yuen-kee, Yuen said that he and other officers arrived at the Kissels' Parkview flat on November 6.

At one point, an officer asked Nancy Kissel whether she rented a storeroom, and she said no.

When he told her the police had learned that she had been renting a storeroom since 2002 and asked her for the keys, she again said no and asked to speak privately to her father, Ira Keeshin.

Kissel and Keeshin spoke in private. 'Suddenly, her father stood up and walked a few paces in my direction and he was holding his head with his hands and he said several times, 'Oh my god, I don't believe it',' Yuen said.