Nancy Kissel verdict should not be disturbed, says prosecution as it rejects appeal
Lawyer says retrial jury had all the facts when it agreed verdict and it should ‘not be disturbed’
Milkshake murderer Nancy Kissel's attempt to regurgitate her claims, which a jury had rejected in finding her guilty of killing her high-flying banker husband, should not be entertained, prosecutors told the Court of Appeal yesterday.
The retrial jury made the decision in 2011 after hearing arguments from both sides and therefore Kissel's complaints of how the prosecution had presented its case could not stand, prosecution lawyer David Perry QC noted.
Perry was responding to criticism put by Kissel's lawyers in her renewed attempt to be cleared of murder after she was twice jailed for life.
He said the jury was in the best position to make a judgment by looking at the evidence as a whole and that the verdict should not be disturbed.
"That is within the purview of the jury exercising the solemnity as the master of the facts," he said.
The three-judge panel reserved its judgment.
Kissel, 49, who looked more at ease in the dock than on Monday, was remanded in custody. It is understood her appeal application is not funded by legal aid.