British banker held over killing of two sex workers in Hong Kong

A British man will appear in court in Hong Kong today after the bodies of two women — one in a suitcase — were found at his flat.

Police have laid a “holding charge” against the 29-year-old — identified as Cambridge-educated banker Rurik Jutting. He was arrested after the women — believed to be sex workers from Indonesia — were found dead at the flat in the Wan Chai district of the former British colony in the early hours of Saturday.

A statement from Hong Kong police said: “Police today laid a holding charge against a 29-year-old man with two counts of murder. Police arrested the man on November 1 in suspected connection with a murder case in a unit at 60 Johnston Road, Wan Chai in the small hours on the same day in which a foreign woman aged between 25 and 30, and another woman were killed.