British banker charged with murder of two women in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police have charged a 29-year-old Rurik Jutting, a British banker, with two counts of murder after authorities found the bodies of two women in his apartment, including one that had been hidden in a suitcase on a balcony. In a statement, police said Jutting would appear in a local court on Monday to be formally charged. Hong Kong media said the victims were prostitutes from Indonesia. A spokesman for Bank of America Merrill Lynch told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. bank had, until recently, an employee bearing the same name as a man local media have described as the chief suspect in the double murder case. Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper said the suspect had taken about 2,000 photographs and some video footage of the victims after the killings including close-ups of their wounds.

It’s very shocking because we never expected something like this to happen in Hong Kong.

Banker Mina Liu

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