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A British banker has been jailed for life after a jury today convicted him of torturing and murdering two Indonesian prostitutes at his luxury Hong Kong apartment.
Rurik Jutting, 31, subjected victims Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih 26, to a horrifying catalogue of abuse to satisfy his dark sexual fantasies.
Following his conviction Miss Mujiasih’s family immediately called for the banker’s execution.
The trader, earning £350,000-a-year at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, kept a video diary as he repeatedly raped Miss Ningsih, forcing her to lick a toilet bowl and beg for her life before he slit her throat.
He stuffed her mutilated body into a suitcase, which he kept on the balcony of his flat in Hong Kong’s red light district as he went hunting for his next victim.
Surrey-born Jutting spent the next few days snorting “industrial quantities” of cocaine before luring Miss Mujiasih to his home by offering to pay for sex.
He had put together a torture kit, including a blowtorch and a sex toy wrapped in sandpaper, but slit Miss Mujiasih’s throat as she tried to scream for help.
Jutting claimed at a trial at Hong Kong’s High Court he had been out of his mind on alcohol and drugs at the time, having snorted up to 20g of cocaine in a day.
He admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, but a jury found him guilty of two counts of murder.
Deputy High Court Judge Michael Stuart-Moore sentenced him to two mandatory life sentences.
In a statement read out by his lawyer, the killer apologised for his actions and said he is “sorry beyond words”.
But Miss Mujiasih’s brother, Suswantoro, said: “The family hopes the perpetrator will be severely punished and if it could, to be executed.”
He told how in 2007 desperate poverty had forced his sister to go to Hong Kong, where she worked as a domestic help.
She returned home two years later but went back and worked as a prostitute in a Triad-controlled bar.
“The family regret allowing her to work again. If she did not leave, she would not have died,” said Suswantoro
During his trial, jurors were played sickening videos filmed by Cambridge-educated Jutting as he held Miss Ningsih prisoner and subjected her to a horrifying array of abuse.
In one video, shot on his iPhone, Jutting can be heard saying: “How much do you love me. If you say yes, I will hit you once. If you say no I will hit you twice. If you scream, I will punch you.”
In another, he confessed: “It’s Monday night, I’ve held her captive since early Saturday. I’ve raped her repeatedly, tortured her, tortured her badly.”
Jutting had paid Ms Ningsih for sex two weeks earlier at a hotel encounter, and she had told friends afterwards it had been rough and she did not enjoy it.
He called her again on October 25, 2014 and set in motion his plan for rape, torture, and ultimately death.
Jutting shaved her eyebrows to dehumanise his victim, whipped her with a belt, and used pliers on her nipples.
She was made to lick a toilet bowl and repeatedly raped by Jutting who said he would kill her if she did not comply with his sadistic demands.
After three days at his flat, her last words were Jutting whispering “I love you” before slitting her throat, dragging her to the shower, where he nearly decapitated her.
In one of his videos, Jutting tells the camera: “My name is Rurik Jutting, about five minutes ago, I just killed, murdered this one.”
He then pans to Ms Ningsih’s lifeless and bloodied body, adding: “Three days of torture, rape and mentally brutalised.”
Spurred on by his first kill, Jutting went to a hardware store to buy a hammer, nails, and pliers, and said in a video: “Let’s be clear about these, I am going to use these to torture someone in the most inhumane way possible.”
Ms Mujiasih, who met Jutting at a club in the Wan Chai red light, arrived at his apartment on Halloween 2014, and stripped off for sex before she noticed he was holding a make-shift gag.
When Ms Mujiasih screamed for help and struggled to get free, Jutting cut her throat.
He then called his mother and his bosses at Meryll Lynch, telling them he was in trouble and warning this would be damaging for the firm’s reputation.
He confessed to psychiatrists about his obsession with violent pornography and dark sexual fantasies, which he blamed on being a victim of sexual abuse while a pupil at £34,000-a-year Winchester College.
Jutting also talked about his love of the TV series Breaking Bad, about a chemistry teacher turned drug baron, hit film Wolf of Wall Street about stockbroker debauchery, and how death was meaningless on shows like Game of Thrones.
Psychiatrists diagnosed him with a narcissistic personality disorder, which combined with his obsession for sadistic sex and cocaine and alcohol abuse led to a spiral of violence.
Jutting, who worked for Meryll Lynch since 2010 and moved to Hong Kong in 2013, was raised by engineer father Graham and nursery teacher Helen in Grade II-listed mansion called Foxwarren, the inspiration for Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows. However, his family stayed away from his trial.
Judge Stuart-Moore said the banker would have received a whole life sentence if convicted under British law, but he could only impose the maximum mandatory life sentence.
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