A British banker appeared in a Hong Kong court on Monday charged with the grisly murder of two women whose bodies were found in his upmarket apartment, one of them decomposing in a suitcase.
Rurik Jutting, a 29-year-old former securities trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, was charged with two counts of murder and was remanded in custody to appear in court again on November 10.
Jutting had called police to his home in Hong Kong`s central Wanchai district in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Investigators found a naked woman with knife wounds to her neck and buttock in the living room of the flat, on the 31st floor of a plush residential block. The corpse of the other woman was discovered decaying inside a suitcase on the balcony.
Court documents named one of the victims as Sumarti Ningsih, listing the other as an unknown female. At least one of the women was Indonesian, the government in Jakarta said.
Police reportedly believe the victims were sex workers.
Jutting, a Cambridge graduate, appeared calm as he appeared in court, wearing a black t-shirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
The bearded banker spoke only twice to confirm he understood the charges.
