Exclusive | Indonesian woman’s death in Hong Kong double murder leaves loved ones without a daughter, a sister, a mother
Grandmother can’t bear to tell Sumarti Ningsih’s son truth about brutal killing
Seven-year-old Muhamad Hkafizh Arnovan lies restlessly on a bamboo bed, his face to the wall.
It is mid-afternoon, and his friends are outside playing in the fields and farmland that stretch all the way to the horizon. Chickens roam freely amid the abundant fruit trees of the village, tucked away near tranquil Cilacap in the south-western corner of Indonesia.
But the boy wants to be alone – he knows something is wrong, even if he is too young to understand.
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Muhamad is the son of Sumarti Ningsih, a young Indonesian woman who was brutally tortured, raped and murdered by British banker Rurik Jutting in Hong Kong two years ago, when he was only five.
But though he knows something has happened to Sumarti, Muhamad is not yet aware of just how much he has lost – he does not know that she is his mother.
