The father-in-law of milkshake murderer Nancy Kissel has denounced her latest attempt to seek an appeal.
'Is there never an end to her machinations?' asked Bill Kissel, the father of banker Robert Kissel, who was beaten to death in 2003.
In an interview yesterday with the South China Morning Post via e-mail, he said he understood that Kissel was considering basing her appeal on a claim that she was not properly represented by her British lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald QC. 'It is strange that after two trials, in which she was found guilty, she should still insist she was improperly represented.'
His comments came after the Post reported that Nancy Kissel had recently filed an application for leave to appeal 'out of time' against her second murder conviction handed down in March last year after a retrial.
Kissel fed her husband a drug-laced milkshake before bludgeoning him to death with a lead ornament at their Parkview complex in Tai Tam.
Chief Inspector Lawrence Ng Yeung-yin, who handled the case, said she had not yet put forward her grounds for an appeal.