"Milkshake Murder" Retrial - The retrial of American Nancy Kissel for the 2003 killing of her investment banker husband started on Tuesday, in an infamous case dubbed the "milkshake murder" that shone a spotlight on Hong Kong's elite. The mother-of-three pleaded not guilty to murdering Robert Kissel, a senior investment banker at Merrill Lynch, after prosecutors rejected her offer to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Kissel was convicted of drugging her husband with a sedative-laced strawberry drink before beating him to death with a lead ornament. She always maintained she acted in self defence against an abusive, drug-addicted spouse. She was handed a life sentence in 2005 but Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal overturned the conviction last February, citing legal errors at her first trial, and ordered a fresh hearing. On Tuesday, prosecutor David Perry told the nine member jury that Robert Kissel had a cocktail of drugs in his syst...
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