Nancy Kissel, aka the milkshake murderer, has renewed her bid to be cleared of murdering her Merrill Lynch banker husband, Robert, having been twice convicted for the crime - her 2005 conviction was overturned in 2010 but she was again tried and found guilty in March 2011. The case of the 49-year-old American expatriate, who fed her husband a barbiturate-laced milkshake before bludgeoning him to death with an ornament, was first heard by a jury before Mr Justice Michael Lunn. Last year, the judge declared there was no "reasonably arguable ground" for appeal for jailed businesswoman Lily Chiang Lai-lei …
After two years at the helm of Australian-based Brambles Industries, Chow had to resign as chief executive of the palette company in 2003 when it reported a near 40 per cent drop in annual profits. After returning to his native Hong Kong, he came under fire again in 2007 when he backed a Civic Party candidate over a Liberal Party one in a district council election, for which he was accused of "lacking political wisdom" and threatened with more scrutiny of the MTR Corporation (of which he was then chief executive) by the then Liberal Party chairman, James Tien Pei-chun …
Having begun her career as a weather girl in the 1960s, Chow climbed the ranks to become director of three major television channels. The TV-star-turned-politician is known for her celebrity connections and during an election campaign in 2004 was backed at an event by a celebrity football team that included comedian Michael Hui Koon-man and actor Natalis Chan Pak-cheung. After her resignation from the Legislative Council in 2009, Chow hosted a talk show, her guests including then chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, film legend Connie Chan Po-chu and banker Peter Wong Tung-shun …