Briton remanded over Hong Kong deaths

Rurik Jutting was arrested after police found the victims in his apartment in the Wan Chai area early on Saturday. One of the women died days before her body was found in a suitcase, court papers said. The women are believed to have been sex workers. Mr Jutting did not ask for bail and was remanded until 10 November. He was unshaven and wearing a black T-shirt during the brief court hearing at Eastern Magistrates' Court. Asked if he understood the charges against him, Mr Jutting, who grew up in Chertsey in Surrey, replied: "I do." Mr Jutting had resigned from a job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch a week ago. An automatic reply left on his work email read: "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath." Before moving to the company, Mr Jutting worked at Barclays in London for two years. A LinkedIn profile under his name suggested he was a Cambridge University graduate. Winchester College, an independent boarding school in Hampshire, confirmed he had been a student there. Police said Mr Jutting called them to the luxury residential building where he lived at 19:42 Friday GMT. One of the victims, named in a court document as Sumarti Ningsih, was found in a suitcase after being killed on 27 October, a charge sheet said. She had sustained neck injuries. The second woman had wounds to her neck and buttock. She has not been officially named, but was known locally as Jesse. Hong Kong Police said they had retrieved a knife from the apartment in the J Residence block, which is situated in an affluent area and is popular with professional people working in the financial sector. Assistant district commander Wan Siu-hung told reporters Ms Ningsih had been dead "for quite some time". Speaking about the other dead woman, he said: "We believe the death was caused by a sharp object which cut the throat of the deceased. "When police found her she was lying in the living room - the room was messy." Source: BBC