Exclusive | Victim of savage murder ‘haunted’ by British banker, she said in chilling last call to family in Indonesia

Sumarti Ningsih, who was tortured for three days before she was killed by banker Rurik Jutting, told her family in a phone call during the last days of her life that the Briton had been “haunting” her, the South China Morning Post has learned.

In an interview conducted in her home town of Gandrungmangu, Indonesia, her father, Ahmad Kaliman, told the Post that in the last conversation they had with Sumarti, days prior to her death, his daughter said she feared Jutting would kidnap her.

“She said that he wanted to marry her,” he added.

Kaliman, 61, said his daughter, who had been scheduled to fly back from Hong Kong on November 2, sounded desperate to come home, which was unusual as she rarely complained about her stay in the city during such conversations.

“It seems she was happy [in Hong Kong],” her mother, Suratmi, 51, said, recalling past phone calls.

But Kaliman said the last call was different.

“She said that she couldn’t live [there] any more, and that she felt like [she was] being haunted.”