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View all search resultsBritton to face trial over alleged murders in Hong Kong
A British national by the name of Rurik Jutting was brought before a magistrate today for the alleged murder of two women, one of whom was an Indonesian by the name of Sumarti Ningsih
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British national by the name of Rurik Jutting was brought before a magistrate today for the alleged murder of two women, one of whom was an Indonesian by the name of Sumarti Ningsih.
The two victims were found dead in Jutting's apartment in Hong Kong's Wan Chai area on Saturday by the authorities, following a report from a caller who requested that police check on Jutting's apartment.
According to Wan Chai district assistant police commander Wan Siu-Hung, both victims had signs of neck wounds. In fact, one of the bodies was already decaying when found.
Commenting on this, Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene had confirmed that one of the victims was an Indonesian citizen.
'The Indonesian Consulate General in Hong Kong is cooperating with the authorities and is paying close attention to the case. What we definitely know is that one of the two women is an Indonesian national and that the confirmed Indonesian national entered Hong Kong on a tourist visa,' Michael told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Murder cases in Hong Kong are seen as relatively rare, with the last major case occurring in 2003, when an American housewife, Nancy Kissel, murdered her banker husband in their Hong Kong home with a poisoned milkshake and a blunt instrument.
Jutting had worked at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch before quitting his job last week. Nancy Kissel's husband had also worked for Merrill Lynch at the time of the murder. Kissel was sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong for the murder. (dyl)(++++)
