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HK court told of drug-induced fantasies

Source: AFP | October 27, 2016, Thursday |

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BRITISH banker Rurik Jutting, who is accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment, was a cocaine addict who had developed drug-induced fantasies, a court heard yesterday.

The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate and former securities trader for Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges, on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but that was rejected by the prosecution.

Since the trial started on Monday, jurors have viewed harrowing iPhone footage of Jutting torturing his first victim, Sumarti Ningsih, 23, for three days before he killed her by cutting her neck with a serrated knife at his apartment two years ago. Days later, he killed Seneng Mujiasih, 26, cutting her throat.

Mujiasih’s body was found in a pool of blood in Jutting’s living room on November 1, 2014, while Ningsih’s decaying body was discovered in a suitcase on his balcony.

In court yesterday, prosecutor John Reading said Jutting had become increasingly withdrawn and “deeply addicted to cocaine.”

Footage from police interviews showed Jutting saying he had started to take more cocaine at weekends for six weeks before the killings.

“I’ve had cocaine previously, but not in such a large amount,” he told police. “When I started taking it, it started bringing out long and extended fantasies.”

He told police he had killed the two women. “These are the only two people who have been killed by me,” he told officers.

Jutting said he had met Ningsih on the Craigslist website under the “casual encounters” section, storing her name in his phone as “Indo.” He also said he had begun to spend time at a hotel near his apartment for three weeks before the killings, and had paid for sex workers during those stays.

The jury was shown 20 photos recovered from Jutting’s phone, including pictures of Ningsih bound and gagged, and of her body in the shower.

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