Wife gets life for murder

AN American who drugged her investment banker-husband with a milkshake and bludgeoned him to death more than seven years ago has been convicted of murder by a Hong Kong court.

It was her second trial in a case that grabbed attention with lurid details on the breakdown of a wealthy expatriate marriage in the former British colony.

Nancy Kissel was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Her lawyers argued she was a battered, clinically depressed wife who acted under diminished responsibility when her husband provoked her attack.

Prosecutors argued Robert Kissel’s death in November 2003 was a carefully planned murder that Nancy Kissel tried to conceal.