Jutting may become known as one of the worst torturers in history.
The jury panel of the Hong Kong High Court was shocked to see the video of British investment banker Rurik Jutting torturing an Indonesian woman whom he killed along with another woman.
The four-hour video shot on Jutting’s mobile phone was played before the jury on Tuesday. The video showed how Jutting tortured Sumarti Ningsih, a young woman before killing her. Jutting, 31, made the woman lick his toilet in his Hong Kong apartment two years ago before killing and stuffing her body into a suitcase. His trial started at Hong Kong‘s High Court on Monday.
Reuters reported that Jutting has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih while he was working as the vice president and head of Structured Equity Finance & Trading (Asia) of the Bank of America in Kong Kong.
Though he was pleaded not guilty to murder, he was found guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and of preventing lawful burial of a body.
The video gave some jaw-dropping moments to the jury as they saw the abuse suffered by the victims. Some of them diverted their eyes and tears welled up in the eyes of one of the jury.
“I just killed someone, first person I ever killed, I cut her throat in the bathroom … to be precise I cut her throat while she was bending over licking dirty toilet bowl,” Jutting said in the video.
“I treated her as a non-person, a sex object. And that turned me on,” he said.
Jutting, who filmed himself taking cocaine, however, shut his eyes and covered his face with hands as he saw the video. He used a belt, sex toys, a pair of pliers and his fists to torture the woman for three days.
“This doesn’t really hurt, does it? You deserve some water, don’t you? Just one more before some water,” he said as he cut her nipples. The video contained many scenes including Jutting urinating into a beer glass, and playing the song Disturb by pop artist Rhianna.
After torturing her for three days, he took her into the bathroom, had her kneel in front of the toilet bowl and, with her hands tied behind her back with his belt, made her lick the toilet bowl. Then he cut her throat with a serrated-edged knife.
Ningsih was in Hong Kong on a visiting visa when Jutting met her. He invited her to his home on October 26 for sex after offering money. On October 31, Jutting met Mujiasih, who was in Hong Kong on a domestic helper visa, at a bar and brought her home and offered money for sex.
The court had earlier observed that the evidence, in this case, was extremely disturbing and shocking.