https://www.scmp.com/rss/323505/feed Rurik Jutting, a British investment banker, was convicted of brutally killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong in 2014. He was jailed for life in November 2016. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This article was first published in the South China Morning Post on November 2, 2014. It has been republished online as part of Hong Kong 25, which looks at how the city has changed since the handover, and what its future holds. By Clifford Lo, Alice Woodhouse and Lana Lam A British banker was being questioned by murder squad detectives last night after the naked bodies of two young women were discovered in his 31st-floor Wan Chai apartment. The 29-year-old - who works for a top-tier global bank... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3178772/november-1-2014-expat-banker-rurik-jutting-arrested?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3178772/november-1-2014-expat-banker-rurik-jutting-arrested?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:30:13 +0000 Dr Gerard McCoy, a prolific barrister and constitutional law expert who defended political activists as well as some of Hong Kong’s most notorious killers, has died aged 63. A senior counsel since 1997, he was one of the very few barristers in Hong Kong who was equally at home in civil and criminal courts, and was described by close friends and colleagues as the city’s “best legal brain”. Gilt Chambers, which McCoy co-founded, confirmed in a statement on Thursday that the New Zealand native –... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3082257/barrister-gerard-mccoy-who-liked-challenge-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3082257/barrister-gerard-mccoy-who-liked-challenge-and?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Apr 2020 03:58:34 +0000 A British banker’s last-ditch attempt to appeal against his convictions for brutally murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong four years ago was thrown out by the city’s top court after eight minutes of deliberation on Thursday. The decision left Rurik Jutting, 32, staring at the three Court of Final Appeal judges before correctional services officers escorted him back to maximum-security Stanley Prison, where he would continue life imprisonment. Lawyers for the former Merrill Lynch banker... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2158921/british-double-murderer-rurik-jutting-has?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2158921/british-double-murderer-rurik-jutting-has?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:28:06 +0000 An appeal bid by Rurik Jutting, the Briton jailed for life over the brutal murders of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, was dealt another blow on Wednesday, when an appeal court refused to give him the green light to take the case to the city’s top court. The former Merrill Lynch banker lost his first appeal against his conviction for the murders of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, at the Court of Appeal in February. He filed a subsequent request to the same court for its approval... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2141195/british-double-murderer-rurik-jutting-loses-bid-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2141195/british-double-murderer-rurik-jutting-loses-bid-take?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Apr 2018 02:36:29 +0000 Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women, failed on Friday to overturn his convictions. Clad in a blue shirt, the Cambridge graduate, who was sentenced in November in 2016, nodded after learning the result he had been awaiting for almost two months. Before the hearing started, Jutting was still smiling at the prison officers accompanying him when he asked for their assistance to get his lawyers’ attention. The former banker can... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2132627/british-banker-rurik-jutting-fails-overturn-double?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2132627/british-banker-rurik-jutting-fails-overturn-double?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Feb 2018 00:00:15 +0000 Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women, will learn his fate another day, after a court on Wednesday decided to reserve its decision on his appeal. The Cambridge graduate, who was sentenced in November last year, stood up in the dock and appeared calm when he received the news. Despite initially saying he would not appeal, the former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee eventually lodged a bid to clear his name beginning with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2124122/no-decision-british-banker-rurik-juttings-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2124122/no-decision-british-banker-rurik-juttings-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Dec 2017 05:30:45 +0000 Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life for the gruesome killings of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, was back in court on Tuesday to appeal his murder conviction, with his lawyers attacking the conduct of the judge at his original trial. If the appeal is successful, his convictions will be quashed opening up doors for different scenarios including a retrial. Gerard McCoy SC, Jutting’s new barrister, told the court that two crucial actions by presiding judge Michael Stuart-Moore had... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2123908/rurik-juttings-defence-team-slams-judge-misleading?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2123908/rurik-juttings-defence-team-slams-judge-misleading?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:00:00 +0000 Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for the gruesome killings of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, is expected back in the dock on Tuesday as he appeals against his murder conviction. A source familiar with the matter also said that since the former banker was sentenced, his family had visited him at the maximum-security Stanley Prison on the south of Hong Kong Island, where he is serving time with some of the city’s most notorious criminals. At 10am the Cambridge graduate is scheduled to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2123884/double-murderer-rurik-jutting-set-hong-kong-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2123884/double-murderer-rurik-jutting-set-hong-kong-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:00:15 +0000 A British banker serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering two Indonesian women was sued by his victims’ families on Wednesday for unspecified damages. The legal action came after the Post revealed last month that Rurik Jutting, 32, has appealed against his conviction, despite pledging to respect the verdict and accept the life sentence that he described as “just and appropriate”. Last November, a nine-person jury unanimously found the Briton guilty of murdering Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2117095/killer-british-banker-rurik-jutting-sued-indonesian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2117095/killer-british-banker-rurik-jutting-sued-indonesian?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:17:06 +0000 A British banker serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for the gruesome murders of two Indonesian women is appealing against his conviction, in a startling turnaround to a case that made international headlines. Rurik Jutting told the court, when he was sentenced, that he had no plan to appeal his conviction over the 2014 killings. But his lawyer, Michael Vidler, confirmed a Post report on Wednesday that the Cambridge graduate lodged his appeal back in May. Vidler said the appeal would focus on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2113007/rurik-jutting-british-banker-jailed-over-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2113007/rurik-jutting-british-banker-jailed-over-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:15:30 +0000 He was single, super-intelligent and earning enough money that if he wanted it, he bought it. They were so desperate that they sold themselves to him – and paid with their lives. Double sex-murderer Rurik Jutting – the Bank of America-Merrill-Lynch investment banker from comfortable middle England who was jailed for life by a Hong Kong court on November 8 – turned inhumanity into a sick art-form for the digital age when he tortured 23-year-old Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, from... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2047365/deal-could-let-hong-kong-banker-turned-sex-murderer-rurik-jutting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2047365/deal-could-let-hong-kong-banker-turned-sex-murderer-rurik-jutting?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Nov 2016 04:00:56 +0000 Modi sparks panic and long queues by suddenly pulling banknotes Indian banks had to call in thousands of police officers to handle queues outside branches as people tried to exchange banknotes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi abruptly pulled from circulation. Modi announced the move to ditch all 500 and 1,000 rupee notes – worth a combined US$256 billion – on Monday. He said they fuelled corruption, were often forged and even paid for attacks by Islamist militants against India. Lines formed... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2045205/asia-3-minutes-desperation-mounts-india-loose-change-china-splashes-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2045205/asia-3-minutes-desperation-mounts-india-loose-change-china-splashes-out?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:35:24 +0000 Joanna Mendoza has every reason to consider herself lucky. She was the last girlfriend of a killer who on Tuesday was convicted of murdering two prostitutes in his Hong Kong apartment in the most horrific circumstances imaginable. The petite Filipino bar girl was Rurik Jutting’s close companion until just a fortnight before he embarked on his killing spree. In an intense two-month relationship, he set her up in a flat in Manila and spent almost every weekend with her as he escaped the pressures... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2044763/rurik-juttings-last-girlfriend-describes-kind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2044763/rurik-juttings-last-girlfriend-describes-kind?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:30:00 +0000 British banker Rurik Jutting was handed a life sentence for his heinous murder of two women, though the defence claimed diminished responsibility from the effects of alcohol and cocaine. While there is no doubt that a life sentence is appropriate, such crimes always raise some doubt about the extent that psychopaths like Jutting have control over their actions. The idea that psychopaths have diminished responsibility because of genetic propensities is generally viewed with scepticism. Parents... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/2044467/rurik-jutting-how-fate-jailed-psychopath-raises-questions-about?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/2044467/rurik-jutting-how-fate-jailed-psychopath-raises-questions-about?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 04:00:30 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence Indonesia’s top diplomat, calling a British ex-banker convicted of murdering two Indonesian women a “psycho”, has pledged to help the victims’ families as they move to file lawsuits for compensation against the killer. In an interview with the Post before a Hong Kong court slapped British ex-banker Rurik Jutting with a life sentence on Tuesday, Consul General of Indonesia Tri Tharyat did not mince words. “I was shocked. I... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044318/top-indonesian-diplomat-calls-rurik-jutting-psycho?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044318/top-indonesian-diplomat-calls-rurik-jutting-psycho?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:15:30 +0000 As the door of his cell inside the maximum security Stanley Prison slammed shut on Tuesday night, sex-killer Rurik Jutting – who took the lives of two innocent young women during a three-day cocaine and booze-fuelled orgy of depraved sex and unspeakable violence – may well have begun to reflect on the fact that Hong Kong is quite literally in his DNA. With an IQ of 137 – which puts him in the top 2 per cent of the most intelligent people on the planet – the former high-flying British banker, 31,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044092/profile-killer-rurik-juttings-descent-brutal-depravity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044092/profile-killer-rurik-juttings-descent-brutal-depravity?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:45:45 +0000 Seven-year-old Muhamad Hkafizh Arnovan lies restlessly on a bamboo bed, his face to the wall. It is mid-afternoon, and his friends are outside playing in the fields and farmland that stretch all the way to the horizon. Chickens roam freely amid the abundant fruit trees of the village, tucked away near tranquil Cilacap in the south-western corner of Indonesia. But the boy wants to be alone – he knows something is wrong, even if he is too young to understand. Watch: ‘Rurik Jutting is haunting me’:... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044046/indonesian-womans-death-hong-kong-double-murder-leaves?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2044046/indonesian-womans-death-hong-kong-double-murder-leaves?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:30:15 +0000 Statement from Rurik Jutting penned on November 7 As has been commented throughout the hearings, my actions in respect of the deaths of Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih, and my actions in the days preceding the death of Sumarti Ningsih were horrific, even by the standards of homicide trials. Despite this I observe the nine jurors were attentive and thoughtful throughout. They’ve delivered a verdict that I cannot and will not have an objection. I’m aware that I not only have two life sentences... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044038/rurik-jutting-evil-i-have-inflicted-can-never-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044038/rurik-jutting-evil-i-have-inflicted-can-never-be?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:44:20 +0000 Three days of torture, two killings and the subsequent arrest of a double murderer – all this took place in a 400 sq ft apartment in a ritzy residential project on one of Wan Chai’s busiest corners. British banker Rurik Jutting, who killed two young Indonesian women two years ago, rented the high-floor flat for more than HK$20,000 per month after coming to Hong Kong in October 2013, and lived there until his arrest on November 1, 2014. Real estate agents said the unit where the women died had... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044009/inside-building-where-rurik-jutting-murdered-two-women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044009/inside-building-where-rurik-jutting-murdered-two-women?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:00:45 +0000 Just hours before she received news of her daughter’s death, Juminem caught sight of a bad omen outside her home. “That morning I saw black crows appearing in the sky, circling my house,” she recalled. The 56-year-old lives in Pulau Muna, a remote island village in Sulawesi, Indonesia, hours from the nearest domestic airport and further still from Hong Kong, where her daughter Seneng Mujiasih was brutally murdered. A neighbour, whose daughter was Seneng’s friend in Hong Kong, knocked on their... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044016/waitress-killed-british-banker-rurik-jutting-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044016/waitress-killed-british-banker-rurik-jutting-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:00:00 +0000 Sumarti Ningsih, who was tortured for three days before she was killed by banker Rurik Jutting, told her family in a phone call during the last days of her life that the Briton had been “haunting” her, the South China Morning Post has learned. In an interview conducted in her home town of Gandrungmangu, Indonesia, her father, Ahmad Kaliman, told the Post that in the last conversation they had with Sumarti, days prior to her death, his daughter said she feared Jutting would kidnap her. “She said... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043939/victim-savage-murder-feared-british-banker-would-kidnap-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043939/victim-savage-murder-feared-british-banker-would-kidnap-her?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:45:45 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence The families of two Indonesian murder victims lashed out at a British banker behind the killings, saying the acts he committed were beyond evil and a crime no species would ever contemplate on their own kind. The Post visited the poverty-stricken families of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in Indonesia, as emotions ran high during the widely followed trial of Rurik Jutting – whose savage and gruesome murder of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044006/beyond-evil-and-looking-excuse-victims-families-lash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044006/beyond-evil-and-looking-excuse-victims-families-lash?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:45:00 +0000 A British investment banker who brutally slit the throats of two Indonesian women he paid for sex in 2014 was jailed for life after he was convicted of double murder by a Hong Kong jury on Tuesday. Rurik Jutting, 31, appeared calm as the two unanimous verdicts were read out before a full house after four hours of deliberation by a nine-strong jury comprising four women and five men. Profile of a killer: Rurik Jutting’s descent into brutal depravity He said in a statement read out before... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044003/rurik-jutting-found-guilty-brutal-double-murder-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2044003/rurik-jutting-found-guilty-brutal-double-murder-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:30:45 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence When British banker Rurik Jutting called the “999” emergency line at about 3.55am on November 1, 2014, officers on the line seemed to have difficulty understanding his English. “You are speaking too fast,” an officer said during the brief exchange with the Briton. The officer was then told where the caller lived. Though the officer thought the call was a noise complaint, policemen were nonetheless sent for immediately. All... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043929/ten-day-trial-british-banker-paints-gruesome-picture-double?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043929/ten-day-trial-british-banker-paints-gruesome-picture-double?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 03:00:30 +0000 A Hong Kong jury of five men and four women retired on Tuesday morning to decide whether a British banker was guilty of murdering two Indonesian women in his flat two years ago, with the judge calling on them to use their common sense in reaching a verdict. The nine-strong jury entered the deliberation chambers at 9.42am after the 10-day trial of Rurik Jutting, 31, who has admitted to the unlawful killings of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, but denied that they were murders. Among... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043920/all-eyes-hong-kong-jury-it-retires-decide-if-british-banker?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043920/all-eyes-hong-kong-jury-it-retires-decide-if-british-banker?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:00:45 +0000 A judge told the jury to put aside their emotions and disgust yesterday when considering the case of British banker Rurik Jutting, accused of the savage, drug-fuelled murders of two Indonesian women two years ago. Deputy High Court judge Mr Justice Michael Stuart-Moore explained on Monday that an alternate verdict for Rurik Jutting, 31, lies in manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, if his lawyers can prove that – more likely than not – he was suffering from mental disorders that... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2043645/hong-kong-judge-tells-jury-put-aside-emotions-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2043645/hong-kong-judge-tells-jury-put-aside-emotions-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:30:00 +0000 A British banker asked a jury on Friday to return a verdict of manslaughter for his savage killing of two Indonesian women as the court was told how his life had entered a catastrophic decline into homicidal madness before he slit their throats. Tim Owen QC said his client Rurik Jutting, 31, who has denied murder, was the only one to blame for the “unbelievably cruel, savage violence” that ended the lives of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in 2014. But he called for a verdict of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043077/catastrophic-decline-homicidal-sadistic-madness-defence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2043077/catastrophic-decline-homicidal-sadistic-madness-defence?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:45:00 +0000 Neither alcohol nor cocaine use diminished a British banker’s responsibility for killing two Indonesian women in 2014, according to a psychiatrist whose evidence on Wednesday was described as absurd and contradictory by the defence. The argument emerged on the seventh day of the murder trial in the High Court as prosecutors sought to refute Rurik Jutting’s argument of diminished responsibility as a defence for the unlawful killings of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26. The Briton, 31,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2042317/despite-alcohol-and-drug-use-british-banker-understood?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2042317/despite-alcohol-and-drug-use-british-banker-understood?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Nov 2016 07:15:30 +0000 The British banker accused of murdering two young Indonesian women in his Wan Chai flat had been in highly stressful jobs, with his life gradually spiralling out of control before his arrest, the High Court heard on Tuesday. On the defence’s second day, Rurik Jutting, who denies murder, was described by his counsel as feeling very stressed after he was involved in selling of a financial product under regulatory investigation in the UK in 2012. His boss told Jutting there was “trouble” and... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2041953/rurik-jutting-double-murder-trial-hears-work-stress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2041953/rurik-jutting-double-murder-trial-hears-work-stress?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:15:45 +0000 A banker accused of murdering two young women in his Wan Chai flat did so because his “narcissistic personality’’ combined with cocaine, alcohol and sexual sadism disorders left him unable to control his actions, the High Court heard yesterday. On the first day of the defence case, British banker Rurik Jutting, who denies murder but admits killing Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, the court heard from Dr Richard Latham, a consultant in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2041595/mental-disorders-impaired-hong-kong-double-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2041595/mental-disorders-impaired-hong-kong-double-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:00:30 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence A British banker on trial for the double murder of two Indonesians told police he had up to six ropes prepared for his first victim, whom the court heard he allegedly tortured for three days before killing her two years ago. The High Court jury also heard Rurik Jutting, 31, recount in video-recorded police interviews played in court on Thursday that he used his “largest knife” to kill his second victim. Jutting has denied... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2040574/i-was-state-extreme-sexual-aggression-british-banker?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2040574/i-was-state-extreme-sexual-aggression-british-banker?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:30:30 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence Footage of police interviews with a British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong in 2014, was played in court on the third day of his trial. Rurik Jutting, 31, has denied two counts of murder for killing Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26. Cut so deep it went through victim’s vertebrae, Hong Kong court told in British banker’s double murder trial The jury already saw earlier footage played... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2040293/she-was-kind-girl-id-have-proper-relationship-british?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2040293/she-was-kind-girl-id-have-proper-relationship-british?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:45:00 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence British banker Rurik Jutting slashed the neck of one of his victims so deeply he cut through her vertebrae, leaving just a 6cm strip of skin intact, the High Court was told on Wednesday. Jurors heard that 23-year-old Sumarti Ningsih suffered a gaping 24cm throat wound, with the muscle in front of her neck, larynx and a segment of her spine completely cut through. Forensic pathologist Dr Poon Wai-ming said: “Skin is almost... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2040259/cut-so-deep-it-went-through-victims-vertebrae-hong-kong-court-told?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2040259/cut-so-deep-it-went-through-victims-vertebrae-hong-kong-court-told?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:45:30 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence Chilling footage filmed by a British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong in 2014 was played in the High Court on the second day of his trial. Rurik Jutting, 31, has denied two counts of murder for killing Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26. Some of the clips recorded how Jutting purportedly tortured Sumarti before killing her, and they were played only to the jurors. Part of the footage... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2039910/there-will-be-no-redemption-me-british-banker-rurik?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2039910/there-will-be-no-redemption-me-british-banker-rurik?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:00:30 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in 2014 claimed in self-made video clips that he was disgusted with himself for torturing people brutally but had no sense of guilt. Rurik Jutting, 31, also described the way he had turned from an investment banker into a “part-time rapist/murderer”. British banker tortured woman for three days before cutting her throat, Hong Kong court told On the second day of his... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2039851/chilling-video-evidence-shows-british-banker-rurik?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2039851/chilling-video-evidence-shows-british-banker-rurik?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:30:15 +0000 Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence An Indonesian woman was tortured for three days with a belt and sex toys before her tormentor cut her throat, the High Court heard on Monday. Jurors were also told how banker Rurik Jutting then filmed himself talking about the first killing before murdering another Indonesian woman by cutting her throat five days later. On the first day of the Briton’s trial, the prosecution gave detailed accounts of the deaths of Sumarti... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2039538/sex-drugs-and-torture-hong-kong-court-hears-gruesome?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2039538/sex-drugs-and-torture-hong-kong-court-hears-gruesome?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:30:45 +0000 A British former banker pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder as his trial opened with the judge warning that the jury would see “unpleasant photographs” during the trial. Rurik Jutting is charged with two counts of murder for the deaths of two Indonesian women, Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih. Both were found dead inside his flat at J Residence on Johnston Road, in Wan Chai. Jutting, who had been in custody since November 1, 2014 – the day the two corpses were found – appeared in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2039487/british-double-murder-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2039487/british-double-murder-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:45:45 +0000 A British banker who is accused of killing two Indonesian women in his flat in Wan Chai last year will face trial before a jury next October. Rurik Jutting, who had been in custody since November 1 – the day the two corpses were found – was absent from the High Court this morning. He was represented by his lawyer, Michael Vidler, at today’s hearing to fix further court dates. The trial would be held for about 20 days, the court heard. Mr Justice Louis Tong Po-sun set a pre-trial hearing on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1867423/trial-date-set-british-banker-rurik-jutting-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1867423/trial-date-set-british-banker-rurik-jutting-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:15:00 +0000 The second Indonesian woman allegedly murdered by British banker Rurik Jutting in Wan Chai last year was named in court yesterday. Prosecutors identified her as Seneng Mujiasih, after earlier listing the first woman as Sumarti Ningsih. It was the first time Seneng has been publicly named by authorities. The 30-year-old Briton is charged with two counts of murder over the death of the two women at J Residence in Johnston Road on November 1 and has yet to enter a plea. At Eastern Court yesterday,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1754067/british-banker-rurik-jutting-appears-hong-kong-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1754067/british-banker-rurik-jutting-appears-hong-kong-court?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:37:51 +0000 A 29-year-old British banker accused of killing two women in his Wan Chai flat was brought to court yesterday to have a date set for his committal hearing. Rurik Jutting was ordered by Magistrate So Wai-tak in Eastern Court to return on April 2, at which point he must indicate whether he will plead guilty or not guilty to charges of murder. The court will also decide at that point whether there is sufficient evidence to move the case forward. If the prosecution is going ahead and the defendant... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1722986/british-banker-rurik-jutting-scheduled-enter-plea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1722986/british-banker-rurik-jutting-scheduled-enter-plea?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:15:00 +0000 Rurik Jutting, the British banker accused of murdering two women, has been found fit to stand trial after psychiatric tests. The trial was adjourned this morning for eight months to allow more than 200 items of evidence to be forensically tested. Jutting, 29, had undergone two weeks of psychiatric evaluation. He has been in custody since November 1, when the bodies of Sumarti Ningsih, 25, and an unnamed woman were discovered in his upmarket flat on Johnston Road in Wan Chai. Principal Magistrate... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1647671/hong-kong-double-murder-suspect-rurik-jutting-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1647671/hong-kong-double-murder-suspect-rurik-jutting-found?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:00:00 +0000 A British banker accused of murdering two women in his Wan Chai home is to undergo psychiatric assessment, according to a court order yesterday. Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai sought two psychiatric reports on Rurik Jutting, 29, to determine whether he was fit to enter a plea. "You should give full instructions to your lawyer," she told Jutting in Eastern Court. The magistrate adjourned the case to November 24. Jutting is accused of murdering Sumarti Ningsih, 25, and an unnamed woman. He was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1636389/hong-kong-double-murder-suspect-rurik-jutting-undergo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/1636389/hong-kong-double-murder-suspect-rurik-jutting-undergo?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:00:15 +0000 The attention of the world’s media is once again on Hong Kong after the story of a gruesome double murder in Wan Chai broke over the weekend. British banker Rurik Jutting, 29, appeared in court on Monday where he stands accused of murdering two women, the bodies of whom were found at his upscale apartment early on Saturday morning. He did not enter a plea. The case shocked many in Hong Kong, which has a deserved reputation for being safe and relatively crime-free, and was quickly picked up by... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1631770/wan-chai-double-murder-case-highlights-hong-kongs-strict-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1631770/wan-chai-double-murder-case-highlights-hong-kongs-strict-court?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:15:00 +0000 A British banker appeared in court on Monday in connection with the murder of two women in Wan Chai last week. Rurik George Caton Jutting, 29, stands accused of killing two women at his upscale apartment in the vibrant Hong Kong Island district.  No plea was made on the charges at Eastern Court on Monday.   Watch: British banker in court over grisly Hong Kong double murder The court heard that police declined Jutting's requests to contact the British consulate-general and a solicitor who he... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630960/wan-chai-suspect-charged-double-murder-appear-court-today?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630960/wan-chai-suspect-charged-double-murder-appear-court-today?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:15:15 +0000 A relative of one of the two women found murdered in a British banker’s flat in Wan Chai on Saturday has provided crucial information on the identities of the two victims, a police source said. Police were able to identify Sumarti Ningsih, 25, as one of the victims with the help of her cousin, who also lives in Hong Kong, the source said.  Ningsih entered Hong Kong from Indonesia on a tourist visa last month. The source said Ningsih had been arrested on suspicion of breaching her conditions of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/1629862/victims-relative-sheds-light-identities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/1629862/victims-relative-sheds-light-identities?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:09:25 +0000