The deal that could let Hong Kong banker turned sex-murderer Rurik Jutting go back to Britain
Sadistic killer Rurik Jutting is seeking a transfer home in what would be a first under a rarely-used treaty
He was single, super-intelligent and earning enough money that if he wanted it, he bought it. They were so desperate that they sold themselves to him – and paid with their lives.
Double sex-murderer Rurik Jutting – the Bank of America-Merrill-Lynch investment banker from comfortable middle England who was jailed for life by a Hong Kong court on November 8 – turned inhumanity into a sick art-form for the digital age when he tortured 23-year-old Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, from Indonesia, then cut their throats before recording his thoughts about what he had done on his mobile phone.
His defence against murder was to seek a lesser manslaughter charge on the grounds his judgement had been substantially impaired at the time of the crimes by cocaine and alcohol. In other words, ‘the drugs and booze made me do it’. But the jury weren’t fooled and neither was the judge, Mr Justice Stuart-Moore, who rejected out of hand Jutting’s self-important post-sentencing statement to the court about the “evil” he had done. “Let no one be fooled by the defendant’s superficial charm. He has not shown a shred of remorse,” the judge said.
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But Jutting wasn’t finished, the 31-year-old Briton whose mother was born in Hong Kong, then announced his intention to apply – as is his legal right – to serve his sentence in England under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Agreement that Hong Kong signed with Britain a year after the 1997 handover.
