British banker tortured, killed victim, Hong Kong court told
Source: Associated Press
British banker tortured, killed victim, Hong Kong court told
Kelvin Chan, Associated Press
Updated 7:09 am, Monday, October 24, 2016
HONG KONG (AP) — A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment had tortured one of the victims for three days while using cocaine, a prosecutor said at the opening of his murder trial Monday.
The women's murders and the banker's arrest in 2014 shocked the city, which has a reputation for being safe but also has extreme inequality among its foreign workers. The Asian financial center and former British colony has a sizable white-collar expatriate elite alongside more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers, almost all of them women from Indonesia or the Philippines.
The defendant, Cambridge University graduate Rurik Jutting, had worked at the Hong Kong office of Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in structured equity finance and trading. The bodies of Sumarti Ningsih, 23 and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, were found in his upscale apartment near the Asian financial center's Wan Chai red-light district.
Jutting pleaded not guilty to two murder charges, with prosecutors rejecting his attempt to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
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Rurik Jutting