Exclusive | ‘Beyond evil and looking for an excuse’: victims’ families lash out at murderer Rurik Jutting

Families of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, are expected to file civil lawsuits seeking compensation from Jutting

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The family of victim Seneng Mujiasih: (from left) grandmother Karso Utomo, father Mujiharjo, mother Juminem, sister-in-law Fasria, and (in front) niece Revi Liansifa. Photo: Aleksander Solum

Chris Lau

Published: 3:45pm, 8 Nov 2016Updated: 11:40am, 24 Dec 2020

Warning: the following article contains graphic descriptions of violence

The families of two Indonesian murder victims lashed out at a British banker behind the killings, saying the acts he committed were beyond evil and a crime no species would ever contemplate on their own kind.

The Post visited the poverty-stricken families of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in Indonesia, as emotions ran high during the widely followed trial of Rurik Jutting – whose savage and gruesome murder of the two women in Hong Kong put the city on edge.

On Tuesday Jutting was convicted of double murder by a Hong Kong jury.

Some family members of Sumarti and Seneng, distraught over the deaths of their loved ones and financially crippled due to the fact the women were breadwinners, told the Post that they would retaliate an eye for an eye, if they ever had a chance to confront Jutting in person.

Some also criticised the banker for blaming his acts on the influence of drugs. “It’s really just an excuse for him, so that perhaps he will get a lighter punishment,” Suyitno, the brother of Sumarti, said.