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| 'Milkshake murderer' wins appeal | 'Milkshake murderer' wins appeal |
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| Hong Kong's top court has overturned the conviction of American woman Nancy Kissel for the murder of her investment banker husband. | Hong Kong's top court has overturned the conviction of American woman Nancy Kissel for the murder of her investment banker husband. |
| The court ordered a retrial for Kissel, jailed for life for putting sedatives in her husband Robert's milkshake and bludgeoning him with an ornament. | The court ordered a retrial for Kissel, jailed for life for putting sedatives in her husband Robert's milkshake and bludgeoning him with an ornament. |
| Her lawyers say prosecutors breached evidence rules during the trial. | Her lawyers say prosecutors breached evidence rules during the trial. |
| The 2005 case heard tales of wealth, adultery, cocaine abuse, violent rows, wealth, greed and unhappiness. | The 2005 case heard tales of wealth, adultery, cocaine abuse, violent rows, wealth, greed and unhappiness. |
| "The court unanimously allows the appeal, quashes the conviction and orders a re-trial," Court of Final Appeal Chief Justice Andrew Li said. | |
| The 45-year-old mother of two, who lost her first appeal, has been serving a life sentence since she was convicted. | |
| Body in carpet | |
| Kissel had admitted killing her husband, a banker at Merrill Lynch, in November 2003, but had denied murder, a charge that requires premeditation. | |
| Prosecutors said she had given Robert, 40, a strawberry milkshake spiked with sedatives, before cracking his skull several times with a heavy statuette. | |
| Kissel had tried to dispose of his body by rolling it up in a carpet and putting it into a storage room at the luxury Parkview apartments complex on Hong Kong island. | |
| But the stench soon gave her away. | |
| Revelations at the original trial about the lifestyle of some members of the territory's wealthy expatriate elite gripped the public imagination for weeks. | |
| Kissel lost an appeal in 2008 based on her claim that she acted in self defence as her husband was threatening her with a baseball bat. | |
| At the trial prosecutors argued that she planned the murder due to her uncontrolled passion for a new lover, a TV repairman in the US. | |
| They alleged that Kissel stood to gain up to $18m (£11m) in life insurance payouts from her husband's death. |