'Milkshake murderer' Nancy Kissel in second appeal against husband's murder
Milkshake murderer's lawyer says retrial was unfair as public had been 'poisoned'
Milkshake murderer Nancy Kissel was back in court yesterday as she renewed her bid to be cleared of murdering her high-flying banker husband.
Her leading counsel, Edward Fitzgerald QC, told the Court of Appeal that the conviction was flawed because the prosecution made errors during the case and was wrong to have told the jury they could be "sure" Kissel did not suffer from depression.
She was jailed for life in 2005 for feeding her Merrill Lynch banker husband Robert a drug-laced milkshake before bludgeoning him to death with a lead ornament at their Parkview flat in Tai Tam.
The American expatriate was jailed for life a second time in March 2011 after the jury rejected her plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, after the court heard tales of infidelity, homosexuality, violence, sodomy and greed.
The defence argued that she suffered from depression and was provoked into killing Robert after enduring years of sexual and physical abuse.