Rurik Jutting, the Briton who on Sunday night was charged with the murder of two women, reportedly had thousands of images of the dead bodies on his smart phone - leading police to investigate whether he was behind further attacks.
Police were on Sunday night investigating whether a British banker suspected of being behind the horrific American Psycho-style killings of two Asian women in Hong Kong had killed anyone else.
Rurik Jutting, 29, a privately educated Cambridge University graduate, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday after the bodies of two women were found in his apartment. Local media reports said they were sex workers.
One of the victims was said to have been partially decapitated before her body was stuffed in a suitcase. It is thought she had been dead for several days.
On Sunday night police said a 29-year-old Briton had been charged with the two murders and would appear before a magistrate on Monday.
Thousands of photographs and some video footage of the two women taken after their deaths was found on a mobile phone, according to the South China Morning Post.
Police were said to be scouring the phone in a bid to identify further potential victims.
Mr Jutting, an employee of Bank of America Merril Lynch, vanished from his place of work around a week ago, a co-worker told The Telegraph.
The South China Morning Post said that he had recently resigned.
According to reports he was last seen returning to his flat in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district in the company of a scantily-clad woman just after midnight on Friday night.
At 3.42am, he is alleged to have called the police, who arrived at his apartment just minutes later.
Forensic teams were said to have found sex toys, a small quantity of cocaine and a smartphone that belonged to Mr Jutting.
The woman whose body was found in a suitcase was named locally as Sumarti Ningsih, 25, from Indonesia, who had arrived in the former British colony last month on a tourist visa.
The second victim is believed to be a 30-year-old from the Philippines who worked as a part-time disc jockey in a pub.
Detectives were said to be visiting Wan Chai's pubs and vice dens on Sunday in an attempt to piece together the lives of the two women.
Mr Jutting, from Surrey, attended Winchester College, an independent boys school in Hampshire, before reading history and law at Cambridge University, where he was a member of the rowing club and secretary of the history society.
He worked for Barclays in London between 2008 and 2010 before moving to the United States to work for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which seconded him to Hong Kong in the summer of 2013. His last known address in the UK was a flat in Wapping, where the porter remembered him as a “really quiet, calm guy” who lived with his girlfriend until they split up.
According to a post on his Facebook page, Mr Jutting had recently been in a relationship with an Asian woman called Yanie.
He had used his page to post links to reports entitled: "Money does buy happiness" and “Is 29 the perfect age?”
One co-worker at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who declined to be named, described Mr Jutting as someone who "talked very loud and made ---- loads of money".
Another employee said Mr Jutting was known for his brains and his salary.
"He's very smart," said the employee, who declined to be named. "The money he is making is as much as an MD [managing director]. He does business in multiple areas."
Mr Jutting’s parents live in a large detached property on the outskirts of Cobham, Surrey.
The picturesque Grade II listed manor, which is set behind wrought iron gates and surrounded by woodland, was built in 1861 and was the inspiration for Ernest Shepard's illustration of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic The Wind in the Willows.
A man thought to be Mr Jutting's father, looked shattered as he told reporters at the gate: "Please respect our privacy".
The couple, who are keen beekeepers, have one other son.
Wan Chai is a skyscraper-packed neighbourhood on Hong Kong island that is popular among affluent young expats and is also home to a notorious red light district.
The reported crime scene recalled Bret Easton Ellis' book "American Psycho" where numerous barbaric crimes occur in the apartment of a Wall Street investment banker.
The Telegraph
No comments:
Post a Comment