November 1, 2014: Expat banker Rurik Jutting arrested over murder of 2 women

Bodies of two young women, believed to be sex workers, found in Briton’s upscale Wan Chai apartment - and they may have died days apart

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Rurik Jutting leaves the Eastern Magistrates Court in a prison van on November 24, 2014. Photo: Sam Tsang

Published: 8:30pm, 14 Jun 2022

This article was first published in the South China Morning Post on November 2, 2014. It has been republished online as part of Hong Kong 25, which looks at how the city has changed since the handover, and what its future holds.

By Clifford Lo, Alice Woodhouse and Lana Lam

A British banker was being questioned by murder squad detectives last night after the naked bodies of two young women were discovered in his 31st-floor Wan Chai apartment.

The 29-year-old - who works for a top-tier global bank - was arrested early yesterday after he called police. Officers arrived at his Johnston Road flat to discover the body of one young woman in the living room. Her throat had been slashed. Hours later the body of the second woman was found stuffed in a suitcase on the apartment’s balcony.

It is believed that the women were sex workers of Southeast Asian or Asian ethnicity and that they may have been killed days apart.

A police source said the flat at J Residence, a high-end block at 60 Johnston Road favoured by junior expatriate bankers, was “covered in blood’’.