A British banker was jailed for life Tuesday for the horrifying murder of two Indonesian women at his upscale Hong Kong apartment, in a cocaine-fuelled rampage the judge called “sickening in the extreme”, reports AFP.
Cambridge University graduate Rurik Jutting, 31, tortured Sumarti Ningsih for three days—filming parts of her ordeal on his phone—before slashing her throat with a serrated knife and stuffing her body into a suitcase.
Days later, and with Ningish’s corpse rotting on his balcony, the Bank of America worker picked up Seneng Mujiasih, intending to play out the same sick fantasies, but killed her when she started screaming.
“This must rank as one of the more horrifying murder cases ever to come to court in Hong Kong,” judge Michael Stuart-Moore told the court.
Jutting’s crimes were “sickening in the extreme and beyond a normal person’s imagination”. He described the case as touching the “very depths of human depravity” and said Jutting had not shown a shred of remorse.
“You go to prison for life,” he said, at the end of a case that has shocked and captivated the city.
Stuart-Moore said Jutting was “highly likely” to kill again if he were ever freed. Defence counsel Tim Owen had earlier told the court that Jutting would apply for transfer to a prison in Britain.
The former Winchester College private school student remained almost expressionless during sentencing at Hong Kong’s high court, only breathing out heavily as he left the dock. In a gruelling 10-day trial, the jury heard how Jutting became obsessed with slavery, rape and torture—fantasies he had acted out on his first victim, Ningsih.