Testifying in the High Court Wednesday, police officer Cheung Chun-kit said he found fragments of e-mails that passed between the accused and her alleged lover, Michael del Priore, Internet addresses for Web sites about sleeping pills and possible evidence that an Internet search had been made for ''Sleeping Pills Overdose.''

Nancy Kissel, 41, is accused of serving her banker husband Robert Kissel a pink milkshake laced with sedatives, which left him unconscious at the foot of their bed as she beat him to death with a heavy metal ornament on Sunday night, November 2, 2003.

The accused told a doctor and the police at the time that her husband was drunk and had assaulted her after she refused him sex, and then disappeared.

She denies the murder charge and is out on bail.

The banker's decomposing body, wrapped up in a carpet, was discovered in a storeroom in the Parkview residential complex, Tai Tam, in the early hours of November 7.

In his opening submission at the beginning of June, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Peter Chapman said ``E-blaster'' spyware, secretly installed on Nancy Kissel's laptop, recorded on August 28, 2003, the words ``Sleeping Pills. Overdose Medication Causing Heart Attack. Drug Overdose.''

Cheung, who received four computers for examination on November 24, 2003, said Wednesday it was ``possible'' the words were entered as an Internet search.

Cheung said the spyware, when installed in a computer, is capable of recording which applications, such as Word or Excel, have been used, what was typed on the keyboard and which Internet sites have been viewed.

If set accordingly, the spyware can also directly forward e-mail correspondence to another designated address.

Cheung found a ``text fragment'' which read, ``After having a private investigating firm follow me, are they going to be watching me forever? Hidden cameras, tapped phones. I recognize what the affair has done trust-wise.''

When asked why he found this fragment both on the Sony Vaio laptop and the IBM laptop used by the deceased, Cheung said E-blaster had captured that fragment from the Sony laptop and sent it to the Hotmail account, and the IBM computer must have been used to access and view that same fragment. The Web site addresses of ``Sleepingpills.net'' and ``medhelp.org'' had also been viewed for between one and three minutes.

According to the temporary Internet files folder, the Hong Kong Police Force Web site was also viewed on November 6, said Cheung.

A telephone-contacts page was also seen but, owing to the poor quality of the recovered Web page, Cheung said he could not specifically tell which telephone numbers for report rooms were viewed.

There were two user names for the Sony laptop, one of which said ``Kissel,'' and the other was the name of their youngest son.

The case continues today before Justice Michael Lunn.

albert.wong@singtaonewscorp.com