Kids sue 'Milkshake Murderer'

2006-09-01 21:35

Hong Kong - The children of Nancy Kissel, the so-called Milkshake Murderer serving life in Hong Kong for killing her husband, have filed a civil suit against her for damages.

The three children, aged 11, eight and five, filed suit through their aunt, court papers showed on Friday. A second suit was filed on behalf of their father.

The American has served one year of her sentence for murdering her high-flying investment banker husband Robert.

The 41-year-old was convicted of beating him over the head with a lead ornament in November 2003. She had drugged him with a sedatives-laced strawberry milkshake

The three-month case electrified Hong Kong with its lurid revelations of sexual goings-on and drug use within the ordinarily private world of the city's wealthy expatriate community.

According to court documents, the children seek damages "arising from the death of their father, Robert P Kissel, as a consequence of injury inflicted upon him by the defendant".

The aunt, Jane Kissel Clayton, was awarded temporary custody of the three children by a New York judge last year.

The case received renewed attention in April, when Robert's brother Andrew was found dead in his United States home with multiple stab wounds. He was reportedly on the verge of pleading guilty to bank fraud.

- AFP