Wife charged with murder of US banker in Hong Kong

An American investment banker's wife was charged with murder yesterday after her husband was killed with a golf club in his luxury Hong Kong home.

The body of Robert Kissel, 40, a senior executive with Merrill Lynch, was found on Friday in a storeroom of the apartment complex where he lived.

Kissel took over as manager of the investment bank's Asian debt markets in 2000.

His 39-year-old wife, Nancy, is under police guard at hospital after being found in a hysterical state in their exclusive home in Hong Kong's Repulse Bay.