Ex-Bank of America worker jailed for ‘sickening’ murders of two women

Police display pieces of evidence used to convict British banker Rurik Jutting on Tuesday. Kin Cheung / AP

The murders were even more damning because Jutting had been given every possible material advantage in life from a very privileged upbringing to a great career and immense pay check, the judge said.

“They are sickening in the extreme and beyond a normal person’s imagination … There are insufficient superlatives to describe what he did.”

In a statement read out by Jutting’s lawyer, Tim Owen, Jutting said he was haunted daily by what he had done.

“The evil can never be remedied by me, nevertheless … I am so sorry. I am sorry beyond words,” Owen said, citing Jutting.

Jutting, the grandson of a British policeman in Hong Kong and a local Chinese woman, had argued cocaine and alcohol disorders as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism had impaired his ability to control his behavior.

A rally in support of murdered women Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih outside the court on Tuesday. JEROME FAVRE / EPA

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