Hong Kong - A millionaire American banker, allegedly murdered by his wife in Hong Kong, surfed the Internet for gay sex services in Taiwan before a business trip, a news report said on Friday.
The claim came in the trial of 41-year-old Nancy Kissel, who stands accused of drugging her husband Robert with a laced strawberry milkshake and then bludgeoning him to death with a statue.
The body of 40-year-old Robert Kissel, an executive for Merrill Lynch, was found rolled up in a carpet and left in a storeroom of the luxury block of flats he lived in with his wife and children in Hong Kong.
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Nancy Kissel is accused of murdering her husband in November 2003 after he discovered she was having an affair with a TV repair man in the United States, and he planned to divorce her.
Her High Court trial heard on Thursday that computer analysis showed Kissel had surfed the Net for "gay sex or anal sex in Taiwan" shortly before a three-day business trip there.
Kissel also entered the search words "gay anal sex", defence counsel Alexander King said, according to the South China Morning Post.
Other entries turned up in a search of the computer hard drive found the phrases "married and lonely in HK", "looking for girls in Hong Kong" and "wife is a bitch", the newspaper said.
Nancy Kissel, who denies the charge, claims she killed her husband in self-defence when he tried to rape her in the bedroom of their apartment in the territory's exclusive Repulse Bay district.
Her counsel is seeking to portray Kissel as a promiscuous, heavy-drinking and uncaring husband who had a history of violence and neglect towards his wife.
Prosecutors say Nancy Kissel, the sole beneficiary of multi-million-dollar insurance policies, plotted to poison then kill her husband as the reality of divorce and her low-life affair hit home.
The case - expected to end in late August - has captivated Hong Kong's Chinese papers, enthralled by the rare glimpse of "white mischief" in the luxury expatriate compounds in Hong Kong. - Sapa-dpa
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