UK banker ‘depraved,’ his defense tells court
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THE British banker who slashed the throats of two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment was “as far from normal as possible” at the time of the killings, his defense, said at the close of his trial.
Once a “brilliant superman investment banker” earning several million Hong Kong dollars a year, 31-year-old Rurik Jutting spiraled out of control under the influence of personality disorders, his counsel Tim Owen said.
Jutting became “a bloated, unshaven, permanently intoxicated, isolated and depraved drug and alcohol addict whose mind was permanently obsessed about sadistic sexual fantasies,” Own said yesterday.
A Cambridge graduate, Jutting is accused of murdering the women, Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, two years ago, after saying he would pay them for sex.
The trial, which has captivated the Chinese city, heard he had tortured Ningsih inside his apartment for three days before killing her and stuffing her body in a suitcase found on his balcony.
The Briton has pled not guilty to two murder charges, instead pleading guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility — an argument the prosecution has rejected. The past week has seen witnesses from both sides arguing the extent to which Jutting was impaired by multiple disorders.
Defense psychiatrists said he was consumed by addictions to alcohol and huge amounts of cocaine, and suffered from narcissistic personality disorder and a sexual sadism disorder.
Prosecution counsel John Reading told the jury in his concluding speech that Jutting “wasn’t substantially impaired,” took cocaine to gain “Dutch courage,” and looked and sounded calm in the videos he made between the killings.
“He took the cocaine in order to be able to torture and ultimately kill,” Reading said.
But Owen argued that the picture painted by the prosecution that Jutting was cool, calm and collected at the time of the killings was incorrect.
“Rurik Jutting was as far from normal as possible to be,” he said. “He was off the scale ... by any standard of normality.”
The judge is due to sum up the case on Monday.
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