Among a litany of barbaric, bizarre and seemingly delusional statements uttered by former British banker Rurik Jutting, the one where the accused killer claims to hold the opposite sex in high regard stands out.
Prosecutors say Jutting made the statement after brutally killing two Indonesian women in Hong Kong in 2014, according to the South China Morning Post.
His words – captured in horrifying footage Jutting is accused of recording after his crimes – were played for a Hong Kong jury Tuesday in the high court the second day of the 31-year-old’s trial, the newspaper reported.
Prosecutors say Sumarti Ningsih, 23, endured three days of torture inside Jutting’s luxury flat while her tormentor was high on cocaine, according to the Associated Press. Police found Ningsih’s body, as well as that of a second woman, Seneng Mujiasih, inside his residence in November 2014.
Ningsih’s body had been stuffed into a suitcase and placed on a balcony, where it was decomposing, according to CNN.
Jutting has pleaded not guilty to murder. He attempted to plead to multiple counts of manslaughter and preventing lawful burial, but his plea has been rejected by the prosecution, CNN reported.
The gruesome case, which drew comparisons to the Bret Easton Ellis novel “American Psycho,” sent ripples across Hong Kong and put an “uncomfortable spotlight on the seedier side of a city known for its low crime rate,” The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reported.
At various points in the videos, Jutting, a Cambridge University graduate and former Bank of America-Merrill Lynch securities trader, seems to delight in toying with his suffering victims.
“If you scream I will punish you,” the banker is recorded saying, according to the AP. “Understand?”
Investigators eventually found a total of 43 videos on Jutting’s iPhone after he was arrested. Depending on the graphic nature of the content, jurors watched or listened to each video during a three-hour period in court on Tuesday, CNN reported.
The chilling recordings captured Jutting wearing no clothes, behaving violently and talking at length about his crimes and affection for extreme violence, according to numerous statements from the court transcript compiled and published by the South China Morning Post.
A sampling, from the partial transcript published by the paper:
— “My name is Rurik Jutting. About five minutes ago I just killed, murdered, this woman here.”
— “It’s Monday night. I’ve held her captive since early Saturday. I’ve raped her repeatedly. I tortured her, tortured her badly.”
— “My hand is still shaking, and I feel sick. I don’t feel guilty, but clearly I feel something. I can’t describe what it means.”
— “I don’t try to push myself to continue to be bad. I wanted to live a fantasy.”
— “Okay, so, logistics. A body is in the suitcase outside. The toilet is half clean. I should throw bleach somewhere.”
— “Some people may see this as the narcissistic ramblings of a murderer, which is true.”
— “I still don’t feel guilty, I feel sickness.”
— “If this ever comes to light, my career will be over … I will probably be justly imprisoned for life.”
— “The narcissistic ramblings of Rurik Jutting, Rurik George Caton Jutting. Former vice-president of structured equity, finance and trading at Merrill Lynch, newly unemployed and part-time rapist murderer.”
— “Obviously I’m clearly loopy.”
— “I’ve killed two, the first one I tortured. There will be no redemption for me.”
Both of Jutting’s victims were lured to his abode after he promised to pay the women for sex, the AP reported.
Ningsih had worked as a foreign maid in Hong Kong, but at the time of her death was in the country on a tourist visa, the AP reported. Mujiasih, who had a worker visa, was working at a bar when she initially encountered Jutting.
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