Lurid killings: Jutting tells of acting out fantasies
HONG KONG: Moments before he surrendered after killing a second victim in his Hong Kong flat, British banker Rurik Jutting ingested up to 20g of cocaine and imagined police were behind the curtains, a court heard yesterday.
In videoed police interviews shown on the fourth day of his trial for the murder of two Indonesian women, Jutting impassively described the paranoia he felt moments before calling police to come and get him.
Jutting has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, as he acted out violent fantasies.
But the former investment banker pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, while pleading guilty to the lesser crime of manslaughter.
Collapsing bloodsoaked and exhausted on his balcony after struggling to cut the throat of 26-year-old Mujiasih, the Cambridge University graduate told how he then yelled and waved a knife at people on the pavement 31 floors below.
“When I decided to surrender, I dropped my knife,” Jutting said, describing how he barricaded himself into his bedroom and called police.
“I saw the curtains moving and I thought they (the police) were there,” he said.
“I took the amount of cocaine for one or two days in half an hour.”
The video evidence showed Jutting telling police he was consuming 10 packs of cocaine a day – each costing HK$1000 (R1785). In earlier evidence, he said he was getting through 10g a day, washed down with red wine and energy drinks. He complained of insomnia.
After surrendering, Jutting gave police his phone as “evidence”, which contained photographs as well as four hours of video footage chronicling his cocaine and alcohol fuelled spiral into an abyss of sexual torture and killing.
Dressed in a light blue shirt, Jutting, 31, sometimes shut his eyes and tilted his head upwards as the interviews played before the jury of four women and five men.
During the police interviews, Jutting said he had enticed both victims back to his flat by offering to pay for sex.
He also described the drug dealer who sold him the cocaine.
“It is all provided by Marvin; he’s a black man,” Jutting told police. The high court trial is due to continue next Monday, when the defence will open its case. – Reuters