Hong Kong court orders psychiatric reports on British banker

A British banker charged with the grisly murders of two women had his case adjourned by a Hong Kong court on Monday for two weeks of psychiatric reports. Rurik Jutting, a 29-year-old securities trader who until recently worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is accused of killing two young Indonesian women whose mutilated bodies were found at his upmarket apartment in the southern Chinese city. Jutting, who was in court Monday, will be remanded in custody and will next appear on Nov. 24.

I hope the killer will be punished and feel what my cousin was suffering.

A participant in the vigil who gave her name as Jumiati, identifying herself as a cousin of Ningsih’s

Meanwhile, about 200 migrant workers held a vigil Sunday to mourn the deaths of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih, where messages from friends and relatives were read out and donations were collected for the girls’ families in Indonesia. Seneng was found naked in the living room, with knife wounds to her neck and buttocks. Sumarti’s decaying body was found hours later by police, stuffed into a suitcase on the apartment’s balcony. According to court documents, she was killed days earlier, on Oct. 27. Police are investigating whether the women were sex workers.

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