A 29-year-old British banker has been charged Monday by the Hong Kong police with the killing of two women in his apartment, authorities said.
Rurik George Caton Jutting, who had worked for the Bank of America till recently, was arrested on Saturday after police found the dead bodies of the victims in his apartment in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong.
According to a police statement, officers found a woman, believed to be aged between 20 and 30, with knife wounds to her neck and buttocks. The police pronounced her dead at the scene. The police also later found a second woman's dead body in a suitcase on the balcony of Jutting's apartment. The woman had received injuries on her necks and had died a few days earlier, police said, reports the Associated Press.
The charge sheet identified the woman in the suitcase as Sumarti Ningsih and said she was killed on Oct. 27. The second woman was not identified.
Ningsi, a 25-year-old Indonesian, had come to Hong Kong on a tourist visa last month. The Hong Kong police had arrested her on suspicion of breaching her conditions of stay in the territory, reports Reuters citing the South China Morning Post.
At the brief court appearance, Judges read the two murder charges to Juttin. When asked whether he understood the charges, Juttin replied "I do."
Juttin's request for remanding him to prison detention instead of police custody was granted by the judge.
According to Juttin's Linkedin account, Jutting he had worked at the Bank of America in Hong Kong since July 2013. Prior to that, he was with the bank's London office. It also said that he had worked at Barclays between June 2008 and July 2010 and had studied at Cambridge University.
