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British banker Rurik Jutting murdered two Indonesian women as 'simply prey' in H
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Rurik Jutting: British banker described murdered Hong Kong sex workers as 'simply prey'
'For a short period of time the human side of me kicked in. I knew that was wrong. But that lasted briefly, a few minutes. I did some coke and that side of me just went,' says Jutting in police interview
British banker Rurik Jutting, who is accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong flat, described on
In the third day of the trial, the jury was shown footage of police interviews with the 31-year-old where Mr Jutting described his treatment of the two women to officers.
Mr Jutting has admitted killing two Indonesian women, whose bodies were found in his apartement on 1 November 2014, but has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Prosecutors have rejected his attempt to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
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On the killing of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, the court hear Mr Jutting told police: "Progressively I went from hitting her quite lightly to hitting her quite hard to abusing her very badly. I think she felt the threat of death. It escalated. It got out of hand.
"I was thinking of a way to let her go in a way that it would not be traceable to me. Clearly if I let her go I would be caught, or I would have to kill her. These are the two options I saw."
Mr Jutting was said to have added: "On
On the second day of the trial, the jury were shown 20 minutes of video which Mr Jutting took of him allegedly torturing Ms Ningsih, South China Morning Post reports.
When questioned by police over the second victim, 26-year-old Seneng Mujiasih, the court were told that Mr Jutting said: "She was very brave ... She was struggling, she was resisting, she was shouting.
"I don’t know why I chose her. I’ve never met her before. She was, at that point in time, she was simply prey ... I was hunting for prey."
The former securities trader also told police he had increased his cocaine consumption in the six weeks before the killings.
"For a short period of time the human side of me kicked in. I knew that was wrong. But that lasted briefly, a few minutes. I did some coke and that side of me just went," he told police, the court heard.
The trial continues.
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British banker Rurik Jutting found guilty of murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong
The jury had to watch the Cambridge University graduate's smartphone footage of him torturing on
A British banker has been found guilty of murdering two Indonesian women after promising to pay them for sex in his upmarket Hong Kong apartment.
Rurik Jutting denied the two charges on grounds of diminished responsibility but was convicted by a jury in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
The 10-day trial heard, in gruesome detail, how the 31-year-old Cambridge graduate slashed the throats of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26.
Murder-accused banker Rurik Jutting was 'sexually abused' at school
The former securities trader was accused of holding Ms Ningsih captive for three days before beheading her and stuffing her dead body in a suitcase. He stored it on his 31st-floor balcony close to the notorious Wan Chai red-light district until calling police.
The jury, who had to sit through his own smartphone footage of the former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee torturing Ms Ningsih, took around four hours to find the expressionless Jutting guilty.
The two victims' families released statements calling for severe punishment as well as compensation over the women's deaths because they were the main breadwinners.
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The family of Ms Mujiasih, a bar worker and former maid, said they were “devastated” and hoped Jutting could be executed “if possible”, the BBC reported.
The family have also reportedly called on the Indonesian government to provide a scholarship for her seven-year-old son.
In a letter read out to the court by defence counsel Tim Owen after the verdicts, Jutting said: “My actions regarding the deaths of Ningsih and Mujiasih – my actions preceding their deaths – were horrific even by the standard of homicide trials.”
Seneng Mujiasih, also known as Jesse Lorena, was found dead in Rurik Jutting's luxury flat (Rex)
Jutting said he was “haunted” by what he had done and was “aware of the acute pain I've caused to their loved on
“The evil that I've inflicted cannot be remedied by me,” the letter said.
“I'm sorry, I'm sorry beyond words.”
The former history and law student, who lived in a flat boasting a rooftop pool after moving to Hong Kong in 2013, debated for his college Peterhouse and was secretary of the history society.
He has been described by friends as bright but aloof and “socially awkward”.
An Indonesian migrant worker at a vigil for Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the eve of Rurik Jutting's trial (AFP/Getty)
The graphic trial painted a picture of a friendless loner living off takeaway food, drinking, binging on cocaine and amassing huge debts.
He told police interviewers: “She was unlucky to be the person in my flat when I realised that physically hurting someone under cocaine was something I gained satisfaction from.
“It awoke a part of me that I never knew existed.”
Jutting, who was taking cocaine in the run-up to the murders, said he spent more than ?820,000 on the drug over two years and consumed as much as 10g and four bottles of wine in on
His defence counsel referred to this, and an alleged sexual assault he was subjected to as a 16-year-old at Winchester College, in an attempt to explain his actions.
Forensic psychiatrist Richard Latham said Rurik Jutting suffered from narcissistic personality disorder and sexual sadism disorder.
He has been automatically sentenced to a mandatory life in prison.
