Rurik Jutting 10 years on: How banker brutally murdered women in his luxury Hong Kong flat
'He took my mother, I will never forgive him. He’s evil.'
Ten years on from the horrific murders committed by British man Rurik Jutting, the son of one victim has spoken out.
British banker Rurik Jutting, 31, killed Indonesian women Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih in 2014 after meeting them at bars in Hong Kong’s city’s red-light district.
Jutting – who was just 23 at the time – tortured 23-year-old Sumarti Ningsih for three days while using cocaine and then slit her throat, and also killed 26-year-old Seneng Mujiasih days later.
Horrific smartphone video clips showed the torture filmed by Jutting, who stuffed Ms Ningsih’s body inside a suitcase that he left on the balcony of his upscale apartment.
Now, the son of Ms Ningsih, Mohammed Hafidz Arnovan, now 14, has spoken about his ordeal after Jutting killed his mother ten years ago.
He told the Mirror: ‘He took my mother, I will never forgive him. He’s evil.’
Rurik Jutting
Jutting was born in London in 1985 to parents Helen and Graham, and was described as an ‘ambitious’ child.
He attended the private school Winchester College, where fees cost nearly £50,000 per year for boarding pupils and £36,000 for day pupils.
He was admitted to Cambridge University, where he studied history and law at Peterhouse College before later accepting a position at Barclays, then joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
But in 2012, he ran into trouble in his job when auditors searched his team for violations.
Jutting said his move to Hong Kong for work felt like it had been ‘arranged by bosses’ to get him out of the way.
The BBC reported one manager told Jutting he was ‘one of the most unpredictable people he had ever worked with.’
Early signs of a killer
After his arrest, it was revealed Jutting had an IQ score of 137 – putting him in the top percentage of the population for intelligence.
But along with his high intelligence, he also had narcissism personality disorder, sexual sadism disorder, along with cocaine and alcohol abuse disorder.
Jutting began to exhibit qualities of narcissism and sexual sadism at a young age.
His inability to accept criticism in university was one sign of narcissism, the defence argued.
Jutting also spoke of a fantasy he had involving kidnapping three teenage girls from Wycombe Abbey, a girls’ boarding school in High Wycombe, northwest of London.
When he moved to Hong Kong, his behaviour began to spiral, with his then-girlfriend sharing worries about his alcohol use.
Jutting began using sex workers in 2009 and his behaviour became increasingly violent, the court case revealed.
The murders
On October 25, 2014, Jutting brought Ms Ningsih to his flat, intending to pay her for sex.
During this encounter, the sex turned from consensual to violent and Jutting began torturing Ms Ningsih.
He filmed her torture, which involved pliers, his belt, sex toys and his hands, all while on a drug-fuelled rampage.
After three days of nonstop torture, Jutting made Ms Ningsih lean over and lick the toilet and he began to slice her throat with a serrated knife.
He then dragged her into a bathtub where he ‘continued’, then wrapped her body and put it in a suitcase on his balcony.
After he killed Ms Ningsih, he filmed her mutilated body and said: ‘This is the first person I have ever killed. I cut her throat in the bathroom. I must come across as a f****** a***hole.
‘To be honest, these are the actions of someone who shouldn’t really be in society. She was crying. She was the bravest person I met. Her will to live was amazing.’
Another piece of footage showed his ‘torture kit’ including a blowtorch and sex toy wrapped in sandpaper, which he intended to use on his next victim – Ms Mujiasih.
He went out to meet Ms Mujiasih and brought her back to his flat, where they began kissing before she saw a gag nearby and panicked.
Jutting held her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her if she struggled – she did, and he slit her throat, leaving her body in his flat.
He took more cocaine then called 999 and his boss, and changed his voicemail to: ‘I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath. For escalation please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody. [Last line only really worked if I had followed through..]’
The sentencing
During his court case, none of Jutting’s family came from the UK to support him.
Judge Michael-Stuart Moore said of the case: ‘He described himself as evil and a monster and neither description is adequate to bring home the true horror of what he did to that woman.
‘(This is) one of the most horrifying murder cases to ever come before the courts in Hong Kong.’
Despite the mounts of evidence, Jutting plead not guilty to murder by diminished responsibility, but did plead guilty to manslaughter.
The jury found him guilty unanimously on both counts, and he is currently serving two life sentences in Hong Kong prison.
But the families of the victims are still suffering ten years on – with the 14 year old son of Ms Ningsih saying this week that he will never forgive Jutting.
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