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Hong Kong Court Charges British Banker With Murder of 2 Women
Hong Kong Court Charges British Banker With Murder of 2 Women in Apartment
(about 7 hours later)
HONG KONG — A 29-year-old British banker was charged with two counts of murder on Monday in the killings of two women at his upscale high-rise apartment.
HONG KONG — A 29-year-old British banker was charged with two counts of murder on Monday in the killings of two women at his high-rise apartment.
The Briton, Rurik George Caton Jutting, did not enter a plea when he was brought before Hong Kong’s Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Monday morning. The police discovered the bodies early Saturday morning in his 31st-floor apartment, which is in a popular nightclub district. One woman had her throat slashed, and the other, dead for days, was stuffed in a suitcase on his balcony, according to police statements and court documents.
The Briton, Rurik George Caton Jutting, did not enter a plea when he was brought to Hong Kong’s Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Monday morning. The police discovered the bodies early Saturday in his 31st-floor apartment, which is in a popular nightclub district. One woman’s throat had been slashed, and the other woman, dead for days, had been stuffed in a suitcase on his balcony, according to police statements and court documents.
Mr. Jutting was identified as an employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. A person with that name recently left the company, said Paul Scanlon, a Hong Kong-based spokesman for the bank.
Mr. Jutting was identified as an employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to an employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Paul Scanlon, a Hong Kong-based spokesman for the bank, said a person with Mr. Jutting’s name had recently left the company.
With days of beard growth and wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned on the front and back with the words “New York,” Mr. Jutting appeared expressionless as the charges were read to him in court. He was not handcuffed, and continuously rubbed his left forefinger against his right wrist as he stood behind an enclosure separated from the rest of the courtroom by metal bars.
With days of beard growth and wearing a black T-shirt with “New York” on the front and back, Mr. Jutting was expressionless as the charges were read. He was not handcuffed, and continually rubbed his left forefinger against his right wrist as he stood, separated from the rest of the courtroom by metal bars.
Mr. Jutting called the police at 3:42 a.m. Saturday and asked them to come to his apartment in the Wan Chai district of the city, the police said in a statement. When they arrived, officers found a woman between the ages of 25 and 30 with cuts on her throat and buttocks. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The police said Mr. Jutting called them to his apartment in the Wan Chai neighborhood at 3:42 a.m. on Saturday. Officers found a woman there, age 25 to 30, with cuts on her throat and buttocks. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Later, they found the suitcase holding the decomposing remains of the second woman, who was found to have died on Oct. 27, a court document says.
Later, the police found the second woman, decomposing with injuries to her neck, in the suitcase. That woman, identified in court documents as Sumarti Ningsih, was found to have died on Oct. 27, a court document shows. Ms. Sumarti was an Indonesian national from the Cilacap region in Central Java province, according to Sam Aryadi, a spokesman for the Indonesian Consulate in Hong Kong.
One resident of Mr. Jutting’s apartment building, who would not give his name, said: “We noticed a strong smell about noon yesterday; it was like rotting fish or something. I think that was right before the police came, or right after, when they discovered the body.”
One resident of Mr. Jutting’s apartment building, who would not give his name, said, “We noticed a strong smell about noon yesterday; it was like rotting fish or something. I think that was right before the police came, or right after, when they discovered the body.”
Martyn Richmond, a lawyer representing Mr. Jutting, said on Monday that the police wanted to reconstruct the crime scene as part of the investigation. Mr. Jutting is scheduled to appear in court again next Monday.
A lawyer representing Mr. Jutting on Monday, Martyn Richmond, said the police wanted to reconstruct the crime scene as part of the investigation. Mr. Jutting is scheduled to appear in court again on Nov. 10.
According to Mr. Jutting’s profile on LinkedIn, he began his career at Barclays in 2008 after graduating from the University of Cambridge, where he studied history and law. He moved to Bank of America Merrill Lynch in July 2010, working first in London and then, after July 2013, in Hong Kong.
According to Mr. Jutting’s profile on LinkedIn, he began his career at Barclays in 2008 after graduating from the University of Cambridge, where he studied history and law. He joined the London office of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in July 2010 and moved to the firm’s Hong Kong office in July 2013. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee said Mr. Jutting had resigned last Monday, though he remained in the company’s directory.
At the bank, Mr. Jutting was “well regarded and a hard worker” who embraced the expatriate lifestyle, spending time traveling to neighboring countries in Southeast Asia on weekends, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee who spoke about his tenure there. Mr. Jutting worked in the bank’s derivatives unit, arranging margin loans for clients. The employee said Mr. Jutting had resigned Oct. 27.
At the bank, Mr. Jutting was “well-regarded and a hard worker” who embraced the expatriate lifestyle when he arrived in Hong Kong, spending time traveling to neighboring countries in Southeast Asia on weekends, according to the employee. Mr. Jutting worked in the bank’s derivatives unit, where he arranged margin loans for clients of the bank.
At Cambridge, Mr. Jutting was secretary for CLIO, the university’s history society, according to an article in Varsity, a Cambridge student newspaper. A man named Rurik Jutting contributed research to a Cambridge University Press book titled “The U.N. and Human Rights: Who Guards the Guardians?”
At Cambridge, Mr. Jutting was secretary for CLIO, the university’s history society and a member of the Peterhouse College, according an article in Varsity, a Cambridge University student newspaper. And a man by the name of Rurik Jutting contributed research to a Cambridge University Press book titled, “The UN and Human Rights: Who Guards the Guardians?”
The bank employee said that Mr. Jutting stopped showing up for work regularly about a month before he resigned, and that other employees reported that he had gained weight.
But about a month before Mr. Jutting resigned from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he stopped showing up for work regularly, the employee said, adding that other employees reported he had gained weight. On a Facebook profile under his name, the last post links to an article with the title, “Money DOES buy happiness: Growing wealth of Asian nations is making their people happier — but women are more content than men.”
Homicides are rare in Hong Kong. In the first seven months of this year, just 14 were recorded in a city of 7.2 million. For comparison, 256 homicides were recorded in New York City, with a population of 8.4 million people, through Oct. 19, according to the New York Police Department.
Homicides are rare in Hong Kong. In the first seven months of this year, just 14 were recorded in this city of 7.2 million. By comparison, 256 homicides were recorded in New York City, with a population of 8.4 million people, through Oct. 19 of this year, according to the New York Police Department.
One of the most notorious murders in Hong Kong involving a foreign resident occurred in 2003 when the body of Robert Kissel, an investment banker, was found in the storage room of his luxury apartment four days after his death. Mr. Kissel also worked for Merrill Lynch, which Bank of America acquired in 2009.
A Facebook profile that matched Mr. Jutting’s name and other details appears to reveal some of his private life. Those who “like” his photos are mostly people who have profiles indicating they are young women from the Philippines. One picture from July shows him with a young woman, with one person on Facebook identifying her as “Yanie.”
His wife, Nancy Kissel, was convicted of killing him in a case that came to be known as the “milkshake murder.” Prosecutors said she had incapacitated him with a drug that she put in a strawberry milkshake before bludgeoning him with a brass figurine.
“YANIE AND RURIK….RUYANIE FOREVER..” the person wrote, using an apparent combination of their names. The page was made unavailable later Monday.
One of the most notorious murders in Hong Kong involving a foreign resident occurred in 2003, when the body of Robert Kissel, an investment banker, was found in the storage room of his luxury apartment four days after his death. Mr. Kissel also worked for Merrill Lynch, which was acquired during the global financial crisis by Bank of America and renamed Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2009.
His wife, Nancy Kissel, was convicted of killing him in a case that came to be known as the “milkshake murder” after prosecutors said she had incapacitated him with a drug that she put in a strawberry milkshake before bludgeoning him with a brass figurine.
