A 29-year-old British banker has been charged with murder by Hong Kong police after two women were found dead in an apartment, one of whom was hidden in a suitcase.
Police charged the man early Monday after the bodies were discovered in an upscale apartment complex in the city’s Wan Chai district, an area popular with tourists and known for its night life.
People familiar with the matter identified the man as Rurik Jutting, who appears to have left his job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently. He is to appear in court later Monday.
One of the murdered women was aged between 25 and 30 and had cut wounds to her neck and one of her buttocks, according to a police statement. The second woman’s body, also with neck injuries, was discovered in a suitcase on the apartment’s balcony, police said. A knife was seized at the scene.
The suspect, who called police to the apartment in the early hours of Saturday, was until recently a Hong Kong-based employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to a person familiar with the matter. Police didn’t name the arrested man.
Mr. Jutting, whose full name is Rurik George Caton Jutting according to a U.K. regulatory filing, moved to the bank’s Hong Kong operation in July 2013, having worked for three years in the London offices. He previously worked for Barclays, also in London.
Filings with Hong Kong’s securities regulator show that the suspect was an employee with the bank as recently as Friday
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