Jutting phoned mom after killings
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BRITISH investment banker Rurik Jutting acted rationally before and after he killed two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment and had even phoned his mother after killing the second woman, the prosecution said yesterday.
Jutting, a former Bank of America Corp employee, has pleaded not guilty to the 2014 murders but guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter due to “diminished responsibility,” citing heavy drug and alcohol abuse and sexual disorders.
The mutilated body of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, was found in a suitcase on the balcony of Jutting’s apartment and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, was found inside the apartment with wounds to her neck and buttocks.
Kavin Chow, an associate consultant at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at Hong Kong’s Castle Peak Hospital, told the court Jutting had acted rationally, ordering food for Ningsih before he killed her as well as cleaning up the bathroom afterwards.
“Despite the presence of abnormality of the mind it doesn’t substantially impair his mental responsibility,” she said.
Prosecutor John Reading said Jutting called his mother after he killed Mujiasih, before he reported himself to police. Details of the conversation were not made clear in court.
The defense has called British experts who testified that Jutting has recognized disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse as well as other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, which impaired his ability to control his behavior.
The defense has also argued that Jutting, a 31-year-old Cambridge university graduate, felt huge stress in his career.
The trial has heard how Jutting took hours of video on his iPhone as he tortured Ningsih. He also filmed monologues he called the “narcissistic ramblings of Rurik Jutting” in which he spoke of the murders, binged on cocaine and explained his violent sexual fantasies.
Freshly shaven and wearing a pale blue shirt, Jutting focused on the session intently yesterday, making notes as he sat flanked by three policemen.
He smiled at times as his defense team challenged Chow.
Chow said Jutting had traits of a psychopathic and narcissistic personality but not a disorder.
Reading detailed Jutting’s openness to homosexuality. He quoted Jutting as saying he was “96 percent heterosexual” after having a few experiences with other males.
He enjoyed having rough sex and experimenting with a variety of sex workers, Reading said.
Dr Oliver Chan, a medical officer at the forensic psychiatry department at Castle Peak Hospital, said he believed it would be hard for Jutting to resist cocaine but that it would “not deprive him of his ability to control himself.”
Jutting’s series of actions before and after the killings, including buying sex toys and hardware tools, “speaks against the notion he was out of control ... all I can say is it was not an impulsive act,” Chan said.
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