No decision on British banker Rurik Jutting’s appeal against double murder conviction
The Cambridge graduate, who was sentenced in November last year, will learn his fate at a later date after court reserves decision
Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women, will learn his fate another day, after a court on Wednesday decided to reserve its decision on his appeal.
The Cambridge graduate, who was sentenced in November last year, stood up in the dock and appeared calm when he received the news.
Despite initially saying he would not appeal, the former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee eventually lodged a bid to clear his name beginning with a hearing at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
His lawyers accused the judge who had presided over his trial of not properly directing the jury on Jutting’s mental state at the time of the deaths. However, Hong Kong’s secretary for justice argued what the judge had done was appropriate.
After hearing their arguments in the space of a day and a half, appeal court vice-president Mr Justice Michael Lunn, Justice of Appeal Andrew Macrae and Court of First Instance judge Kevin Zervos reserved their decision, which will be announced on a later day.
