A
young British investment banker was last night charged with double
murder in Hong Kong after two prostitutes were found butchered in his
luxury apartment.
Cambridge
graduate Rurik Jutting, 29, quit his job as a Merrill Lynch trader just
days before the grisly discovery of one ‘nearly decapitated’ woman in a
suitcase and another who had her throat slashed.
He
appeared in court this morning for a short hearing in which the two
charges of murder were read out to him, and he was remanded in custody
until November 10.
Yesterday,
police in the former British colony were urgently investigating whether
there were any more victims after photos of one of the dead women were
allegedly among 2,000 pictures and videos on a smartphone used by
Jutting.
In
another disturbing development, it emerged Jutting had branded himself
an ‘insane psychopath’ in an ‘out-of-office’ e-mail reply at his Bank of
America Merrill Lynch account.
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Taste for the high life: Rurik Jutting, 29, drapes an arm around an Asian womn after moving to Hong Kong
Victim: One of
the two women discovered inside Jutting's luxury apartment in Hong Kong.
The woman, named locally as Jesse Lorena Ruri, was 30 years old and
originally from the Philippines
Butchered:
Sex workers named locally as Sumarti Ningsih (left) and Jesse Lorena
Ruri (right) were found dead at Jutting's blood-spattered 31st-floor
apartment in Hong Kong after the investment banker called police
Court date: A handcuffed Rurik Jutting
is taken to a Hong Kong court by police car after being charged with
the murders of the two women
The
American Psycho-style killing spree came to an end on Halloween night
when Jutting, from Surrey, reportedly rang police shortly after 3am.
Officers
arrived at his blood-spattered 31st-floor apartment to find a
30-year-old Filipina prostitute, named locally as Jesse Lorena Ruri,
still alive despite gaping knife wounds to her throat and buttocks. She
died soon after.
Eight
hours later, during a forensic examination of the flat, police officers
spotted a suitcase on the balcony which had two feet protruding.
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