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Chris Lau

Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for the gruesome killings of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, is expected back in the dock on Tuesday as he appeals against his murder conviction.
A source familiar with the matter also said that since the former banker was sentenced, his family had visited him at the maximum-security Stanley Prison on the south of Hong Kong Island, where he is serving time with some of the city’s most notorious criminals.
At 10am the Cambridge graduate is scheduled to turn up at Court No 4 at the High Court.
There, the Court of Appeal will hear from his lawyers why they say his conviction should be overturned.
Jutting will be represented by Gerard McCoy SC, who replaced Tim Owen QC, his British barrister at the trial, according to his solicitor Michael Vidler. McCoy will be joined on the defence bench by Tim Parker.
They will appear before appeal court vice-president Mr Justice Michael Lunn, Mr Justice Andrew Macrae and Court of First Instance judge Kevin Zervos.
Vidler said previously that the appeal would centre on “certain aspects of the deputy judge’s directions to the jury” and expert testimony.
Watch: Seneng Mujiasih’s family struggles with uncertain future


Mr Justice Michael Stuart-Moore jailed Jutting in November last year for killing Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26. A nine-member jury had unanimously found Jutting guilty of double murder, after a trial notable for the deluge of gruesome details about his sadistic acts and mutilation of the two women.
The killings took place at his Wan Chai flat between late October and the early hours of November 1, 2014. Jutting had offered to pay the women for sex to get them into his home, but later murdered them, in separate crimes.

Fuelled by cocaine and alcohol, he tortured Sumarti for three days with, prosecutors told the court, “increasingly cruel acts of violence using his belt, sex toys, a pair of pliers and his fists” until he eventually slit her throat, capturing the killing on film, around October 27.
Five days later, he took Seneng back to his flat and cut her throat too.
Waitress killed by Jutting never saw house bought with her hard work
During the trial, he admitted killing the women, but claimed he was suffering from multiple mental disorders that substantially impaired his self-control. His barrister argued it was manslaughter, but that effort failed to convince the jury.
Jutting’s lodging of the appeal, first reported by the Post in September, was a U-turn on what he had said at the end of his trial, when he said he had no intention of appealing.

Before he was jailed, Jutting wrote in his statement: “The evil I have inflicted can never be remedied by me in words or actions.
“Nevertheless for whatever it may be worth, to Sumarti Ningsih’s family and friends, to Seneng Mujiasih’s family and friends, I am sorry. I am sorry beyond words.”
At the time Justice Stuart-Moore was not moved by the apparent display of contrition.
“Let no one be fooled by the defendant’s superficial charm,” the judge said. “[He] has not shown a shred of remorse.”


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Rurik Jutting was jailed for killing Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Victim Sumarti Ningsih. SCMP Pictures (UNDATED HANDOUT)

***ONE TIME USE ONLY, PLEASE CLEAR THE COPYRIGHTS BEFORE RE-USE - OTUO*** Internet photo of the victim Jesse Lorena (aka. Seneng Mujiasih). SCMP Pictures (Handout)

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Rurik Jutting was found guilty of the murder of two women on Tuesday. Image: SCMP Picture

Rurik Jutting appear the Eastern Court in a police van at Eastern Court in Sai Wan Ho.

British banker Rurik Jutting, who murdered two Indonesian women, seeks leave to appeal from Court of Final Appeal on August 9, 2018. Photo: Winson Wong


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Rurik Jutting with his last girlfriend Joanna Mendoza (right) and another girl in Club Rio, Angeles City. Picture: Red Door News Hong Kong

This undated handout image shows convicted murderer Rurik Jutting [FEATURES]

Jumiati, cousin of Sumarti Ningsih, holds her photo during a vigil to express her solidarity and to demand justice for Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih at a park in Hong Kong Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Both Ningsih and Mujiasih are former domestic workers in their 20s who were found stabbed to death in the luxury apartment of British investment banker Rurik George Caton Jutting. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Rurik Jutting case - UNDATED HANDOUT - Internet photo of the victim Sumarti Ningshi.

--EXCLUSIVE USE FOR POST MAGAZINE 13 NOVEMBER 2016-- In this photo taken November 5, 2014, shows bar girls waiting for customers in the thriving red light district of Angeles City, north of Manila. Wealthy British banker Rurik Jutting charged over grisly twin murders in Hong Kong, was a regular in a shabby red-light district of the Philippines where he liked to flash his cash and was treated like a king. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO / AFP PHOTO / JAY DIRECTO [13NOVEMBER2016 FEATURES POST MAGAZINE]

Rurik Jutting case - UNDATED HANDOUT - Internet photo of the victim Jesse Lorena.

--EXCLUSIVE USE FOR POST MAGAZINE 13 NOVEMBER 2016-- This image shows Walking Street in Angeles City where Rurik Jutting spent his weekends. British banker Jutting was found guilty of double murder in Hong Kong on November 08, 2016. [13NOVEMBER2016 FEATURES POST MAGAZINE]

--EXCLUSIVE USE FOR POST MAGAZINE 13 NOVEMBER 2016-- This image shows Joanna Mendoza, a previous girlfriend of Rurik Jutting outside the Club Rio in Angeles City where she met the murderer. British banker Rurik Jutting was found guilty of double murder in Hong Kong on November 08, 2016. [13NOVEMBER2016 FEATURES POST MAGAZINE]

--EXCLUSIVE USE FOR POST MAGAZINE 13 NOVEMBER 2016-- This image shows Ariane Guarin back at work in a bar in Angeles City October 2016. Guarin was a girlfriend of British banker Rurik Jutting who was found guilty of double murder in Hong Kong on November 08, 2016. [13NOVEMBER2016 FEATURES POST MAGAZINE]

--EXCLUSIVE USE FOR POST MAGAZINE 13 NOVEMBER 2016-- This image shows an unidentified bar girl who spent time with Rurik Jutting, inside Club Rio, whilst ex girlfriend Joanna Mendoza is on the stage to the right of the picture. British banker Jutting was found guilty of double murder in Hong Kong on November 08, 2016. [13NOVEMBER2016 FEATURES POST MAGAZINE]

Concern group protests as 1st day trial of murder suspect Rurik Jutting at High Court. 24OCT16 SCMP / Dickson Lee

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British banker Rurik Jutting smiles as he leaves court in Hong Kong. Photo: AFP

TO GO WITH HongKong-Indonesia-Britain-crime-sex-bankers,FOCUS by Judy NGAO This picture taken on November 7, 2014 shows the windows of the upmarket apartment of British expatriate Rurik Jutting, who is accused of murder, located in Hong Kong's Wanchai district. The murder of two young Indonesian women in Hong Kong allegedly by a British expatriate has sparked a backlash against wealthy Western bankers accused of treating the financial hub as their own personal playground. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

A blood-stained knife, used as evidence in the case of British banker Rurik Jutting, is seen in a box before being loaded into a van by clerks outside the High Court in Hong Kong on November 8, 2016, after Jutting was found guilty of murder. British banker Rurik Jutting was jailed for life on November 8 for the horrifying murder of two Indonesian women at his upscale Hong Kong apartment in a case the judge said was "sickening in the extreme". / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

A migrant worker holds up a piece of paper showing photos of Sumarti Ningsih (L) and Seneng Mujiasih (R), both in their 20s, who were found dead in British banker Rurik Jutting's Hong Kong apartment on November 1, 2014, during a protest before the start of verdict deliberations by the jury, outside the High Court in Hong Kong on November 8, 2016. An academic star, a Cambridge graduate, a highly paid banker -- but Rurik Jutting will now wake up each morning to the four walls of his Hong Kong prison cell. As a securities trader, Jutting lived on the 31st floor of a fashionable apartment block with a rooftop pool, on a street lined with expensive boutiques and restaurants. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

In this picture taken on November 3, 2016, people walk undernearth neon signage for various restaurants and bars in the Wanchai district of Hong Kong. The killing of two young Indonesian women by British banker Rurik Jutting sent chills through Hong Kong's sex worker community -- but two years on, many say harsh economic realities leave them with no choice but to take the same risks. / AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE

A prison van carrying British banker Rurik Jutting, accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment two years ago, departs from the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre to the High Court in Hong Kong on November 3, 2016. Jutting has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges, instead pleading guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility -- which was rejected by the prosecution. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

Relatives and villagers attend the funeral of Sumarti Ningsih, one of two Indonesian women allegedly murdered by British banker Rurik Jutting in Hong Kong, at Gandrungmangu village, in Cilacap, Central Java province, on November 12, 2014. The mutilated corpses of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih, both in their 20s, were found in the apartment of the 29-year-old securities trader earlier this month. AFP PHOTO / Dida NUSWANTARA / AFP PHOTO / DIDA NUSWANTARA

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