‘Psycho’ Hong Kong investment banker Rurik Jutting has declared: ‘I am not mad.’In his first account since two prostitutes were found butchered in his luxury bachelor-pad, the Cambridge graduate insisted he had no mental health problems.As police widened their inquiry last night, it emerged Jutting’s trading permit was revoked on the day he is said to have killed the first of his alleged victims.
His licence was cancelled by watchdog the Securities & Futures Commission in Hong Kong.
Hanging out: After police were called
to his apartment, Jutting was questioned before being driven away for
further questioning, leaving a forensic team to examine the scene at his
flat
Investigators
will want to know if the banker – described by the Wall Street Journal
as a competitive poker player – was suspected of being a ‘rogue trader’
and if the loss of his permit triggered the bloodbath.
Jutting
was said to be ‘frank and honest’ with his legal team that the vice
girls died in his flat – one was found chopped up in a suitcase – and
blamed it simply on ‘incidents involving him and girls’ without
elaborating.
Jutting’s
extraordinary comments were revealed as the devastated parents of the
suitcase victim called for their daughter’s killer to receive the death
penalty.
The
former public schoolboy quit his highly-paid job at investment bank
Merrill Lynch days before being arrested, and the out-of-office reply on
his email system said: ‘Please contact someone who is not an insane
psychopath.’
But
it is understood that he has since declared himself sane to a lawyer,
who had suggested he might go to a secure psychiatric unit.
A
well-placed source told the Daily Mail: ‘Jutting was frank and honest
that the girls died in his flat, and that nobody else was there. But he
is adamant he is not mad.’
The
heavily-built 29-year-old, who has been charged with both murders, ‘may
well’ take part on Friday in a video reconstruction – a common practice
in Hong Kong, his lawyer has said. But the source said he is ‘very
angry’ at the prospect.
Jutting,
a former pupil of £34,000-a-year Winchester College, was arrested after
calling police to his £2,000-a-month high-rise apartment on Halloween
night.
Surrounded: Jutting sits with a group of women. He reportedly called police at 3am on Halloween night
Rurik Jutting at a
Cambridge dinner in about 2002. He is reported to have earned a salary
of £350,000 until he quit his job at Merrill Lynch
Call girl Jesse Lorena Ruri, 32, was found dying with her throat slashed and stab wounds to her buttocks.
Officers
later discovered 25-year-old Indonesian escort Sumarti Ningsih
virtually beheaded and trussed up with rope in a black suitcase.
Jutting’s
charge sheet says her decomposing body had been there for five days,
since the day when Jutting updated his Facebook with a rambling comment
about embarking on ‘a new journey’.
Eyewitnesses said Jutting was seen allegedly grasping the throat of Jesse in the street just hours before her death.
He and the two dead vice girls were in a ‘love triangle’, one friend has told The Times.
Today
reports emerged that Jutting was like a 'zombie' after his regular
weekend drug binges, according to a former Hong Kong law enforcement
officer.
Reports
have also surfaced that Jutting allegedly wrote an out-of-office email
to Merrill Lynch staff and clients describing himself as an 'insane
psychopath', shortly before the women were found, according to Yahoo.
Today,
documents from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority revealed the banker was
licensed to trade securities between November 11 2013 and October 27
this year.
But
Mr Jutting's other trading license - issued by the Hong Kong Securities
and Futures Commission - was cancelled on October 28, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The banker would have needed a licence from both the HKMA and the SFC to continue trading.
Jutting
appeared in court yesterday, charged with two counts of murder, after
the bodies were found in his apartment on Saturday.
Earlier
today, an ex officer told MailOnline how the pupils of the banker were
dilated from suspected cocaine abuse and he appeared to have used
amphetamines to act as a 'livener'.
The ex-girlfriend: Banker Rurik Jutting pictured with his former partner Ariane Guarin, also known as Yanie
Victim: One of
the two women discovered inside Jutting's luxury apartment in Hong Kong.
The woman, named locally as Jesse Lorena Ruri, was 30 years old and
originally from the Philippines
He
said the behaviour of Jutting was also a cause for concern to regulars
in two pubs he frequented in the 'Suzie Wong' red light district of Hong
Kong.
Fellow
drinkers in the Queen Victoria and Old China Hands pubs in seedy Wan
Chai included the British former law enforcement officer, who worked on
drugs investigations during his career in the UK and the Far East.
The ex officer told Mail Online: 'Jutting would come into the pubs on Saturday and Sunday mornings in a very bad state.
'He didn't know who he was, where he was and what he was doing.
'Sometimes he would be quite aggressive and confrontational and would upset people by knocking back their drinks.
'I have absolutely no doubt that his Zombie like appearance was a result of drug abuse.
'Cocaine
is the drug of choice for expatriate bankers in Hong Kong and there is a
bar in Wan Chai which is known to be a place where it can be purchased
easily.
'Cocaine tends to slow your body down and it appeared he had used amphetamines, probably speed, to perk himself up.'
Horrific death: Officers arrived at
Jutting's blood-spattered 31st-floor apartment to find Jesse Lorena Ruri
still alive despite gaping knife wounds to her throat and buttocks, but
she died soon after
Butchered:
Sex workers named locally as Sumarti Ningsih (left) and Jesse Lorena
Ruri (right) were found dead at Jutting's blood-spattered 31st-floor
apartment in Hong Kong after the investment banker called police
The
ex law enforcement officer, who asked not to be named, said Jutting was
not popular with many 'working girls' who visited the pubs during quiet
periods.
Neither pub permits prostitutes to pick up clients on their premises.
The ex law enforcement officer said: 'Jutting made no secret he worked as a banker. Very few of the girls liked him.
'They have a good idea who is a good customer and who is a bad one.
'He was too forceful, too in their face. He had a reputation for being mean and paying as little as possible for sex.
'I knew both of his alleged victims and they were good girls. What has happened is an appalling tragedy.'
Rurik Jutting (fourth from left) is pictured with his rowing team at Peterhouse College, Cambridge
Friends speaking to the Evening Standard
described Jutting as 'very sharp, very bright, and perceptive' and
'more a leader than a follower' while a pupil at £34,000-a-year
Winchester College.
Speaking
anonymously, one said they assumed Jutting was looking for a job
reference when his name appeared in the subject line of an email
following his arrest on Saturday.
'If
they had been looking for a reference, I'd have said: I wouldn't want
to spend more than an hour in a room with him, but he was incredibly
bright.'
Another
said of the schoolboy Jutting: 'He was more a leader than a follower.
He wasn't assertive particularly, but was a bit over the top in his
mannerisms. He was arrogant rather than aloof. He was quite pleased with
himself.'
A
third Winchester contemporary added: 'I'd say he was - it may seem
surprising - rather attractive. He had a sort of controlled poise and a
certain understated smugness, a sort of superior air, but lightly worn.
He seemed quite detached. I'd never have described him as affable.'
Former
schoolmates also spoke of their shock at seeing Jutting looking bloated
in recent photographs - adding that they remember him as being 'slim,
tanned and attractive.'
Taste for the high life: Rurik Jutting, 29, drapes an arm around Miss Guarin after moving to Hong Kong
Graduate: Jutting, who studied at
Cambridge University, pictured with Ariane Guarin, who is believed to
have been in a previous relationship with the banker. A friend commented
on this Facebook saying: 'miss you guys i miss our bondings together..i
wish your relationship is back..YANIE AND RURIK....RUYANIE FOREVER..'
The
former public schoolboy and Cambridge graduate dated a string of
beautiful Asian girls from around the world and last year had a
relationship with a stunning British fashion student.
Last
night fresh claims emerged that he was obsessed with having sex with
'two or three women' and held drug-fuelled sex parties lasting for days
at his flat.
But
it was also suggested that he had been left 'devastated' when a fellow
City trader cheated on him two years ago after the pair had been engaged
to be married.
And
it was claimed he had vowed to kill himself because of his ongoing
depression. Channel 4 News said it had spoken to a former girlfriend who
claimed Jutting was deeply unhappy because of his job.
The
woman, who did not want to be named, dated Jutting for about two months
after meeting him in July 2013 – the month he moved to Hong Kong – in a
bar where she worked.
'He's
a perfectionist,' she told the programme. 'He was a very nice person
with me because I was his girlfriend. He was always strict with other
people.
'He
told me that he had financial problems and some issues with stuff. Last
October he told me that he tried to kill himself. I think he tried to
kill himself because he's under pressure with his job. He was
depressed.' She added: 'He liked a variety of sex, two or three girls.
He was never violent towards me.'
Court date: A handcuffed Rurik Jutting
is taken to a Hong Kong court by police car after being charged with
the murders of the two women
Jesse Lorena (pictured posing with cash) was found by police with her throat slashed at Jutting's apartment
An
acquaintance in the banking world recalled Jutting being distraught two
years ago after his then-fiancée – a fellow British trader – cheated on
him with another man.
The woman, named by The Telegraph as Sarah Butt, 28, had met Jutting in 2010 when they were both working for Barclays in London.
However, she reportedly kissed another man after moving to New York from London to work for Goldman Sachs last year.
Fashion student: He also dated glamorous British fashion student Sonya Dyer, 29, once said to have described him as her 'hubby'
Although
the couple attempted to rekindle their romance - even getting engaged
for a short time - Jutting struggled to get over the 'affair' and ended
the relationship a short time later.
The
source said: 'She wanted to marry him pretty fervently and he proposed,
but she ended up cheating on him. It was ultimately him who broke it
off. I think he took her infidelity quite badly.'
Miss
Butt, originally from Bury, Lancashire reportedly joined Barclays
Capital from Pricewaterhouse Coopers after studying at Imperial College
London.
After
a year in the U.S. she is now said to be back in the UK. It is
understood Miss Butt has had no contact with Jutting since the break-up.
'She's very upset, it's a lot to take in,' a source told the newspaper.
Her
mother, Tasheen Butt, who lives in Bury having come to the UK from
India as a teenager said she did not know about her daughter's
relationship with Jutting.
Jutting
is also believed to have dated glamorous British fashion student Sonya
Dyer, 29, once said to have described him as her 'hubby'. Asked about
him at her flat in West London last night, she tearfully declined to
comment.
After
leaving Winchester College, he graduated in 2008 from Peterhouse,
Cambridge, where he studied law and history and was secretary of the
university's history society. Jutting then worked as a trader at
Barclays Bank in London for two years before joining Merrill Lynch. In
2013, he moved to Merrill's Hong Kong office.
He
surrounded himself with beautiful Asian women and showed off his new
life to friends back home in a series of online updates. Many of the
pictures he posted featured young mother Ariane Guarin from the
Philippines – known to friends as Yanie.
The
couple uploaded photographs of themselves to their respective Facebook
pages in July and August but appear to have broken up by early
September. On September 20, a friend took to Jutting's Facebook page to
say she missed the couple and wished they were still together.
Party: The drug-fuelled behaviour of
Rurik Jutting (pictued centre) was a cause for concern to regulars in
two pubs he frequented in the 'Suzie Wong' red light district of Hong
Kong
Lifestyle:
Former public schoolboy and Cambridge graduate Rurik Jutting dated a
string of beautiful Asian girls. Jesse Lorena (right) is one of the two
women he is accused of murdering
Miss
Guarin had divided her time between looking after her children in a
small town in the Philippines and partying with overweight Jutting, who
called her his 'beautiful honey'. Miss Guarin, whose family live in
Angono, a tiny town ten miles east of Philippine capital Manila, is seen
wearing necklaces and rings in shots with Jutting and appeared to come
into money, with friends asking her for loans on Facebook, where she
boasted of building a new home in the Philippines.
Such
was their lavish lifestyle together, her friends compared the couple to
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – known by the combined name 'Brangelina' –
by calling Rurik and Yanie 'Ruyanie'.
But
Jutting's complex love life took another twist when a friend of Miss
Guarin's told MailOnline she was his current girlfriend.
Speaking
to MailOnline from Quezon City in the Philippines, the woman said she
had been in a relationship with him for two months, and last spoke to
him on October 20 – 11 days before he was arrested.
She
said Jutting was a 'good and intelligent' person who had never
displayed any signs of violence, although he was 'very strict' with
other women – a symptom of his perfectionism and his desire to 'do the
right thing'. She added: 'I can say that he is a good man. A good
boyfriend, sweet lover.'
Rurik Jutting's J Residence apartment building, where the bodies of the two women were found, is seen today
Grisly discovery: One of the bodies is carried out of the flats after the banker was charged with double murder
Distraught: The family of murdered
prostitute Sumarti Ningsih whose mutilated body was found in the Hong
Kong flat of British banker Rurik Jutting have called for their
daughter's killer to be given the death penalty
Jutting
posted on Facebook on Monday last week that he was embarking on a 'new
journey', writing: 'Stepping down from the ledge. Burden lifted; new
journey begins. Scared and anxious but also excited. The first step is
always the hardest.'
In
Britain, Jutting's stunned family are still coming to terms with his
arrest. His mother Helen, 52, who was born in Hong Kong and whose father
was a policeman, was not available for comment at the milkshake bar she
runs in Woking, Surrey, while his father Graham, 53, a millwright
engineer, has declined to comment. The couple have another son who lives
in Brighton.
Meanwhile
the parents of murder victim Sumarti Ningshi have demanded that Hong
Kong executes whoever is eventually found guilty of killing her.
Ahmad
Kaliman, 58, was also quoted by the BBC's Indonesian language service
as saying he desperately wants Hong Kong to send his daughter's body
home once the investigation into her death is completed, rather than
bury her in the territory.
He
said he and his wife Suratmi only found out about the brutal killing
when Jutting made his first court appearance on Monday, two days after
the bodies were found. Mr Kaliman, 49, told the BBC’s Indonesian
language service: ‘There is nothing that can be done – it is destiny.’
He added: 'I appeal to the government to help repatriate my daughter.'
Hong
Kong formally abolished the death penalty in 1993 while still a British
colony and continues to operate an entirely different legal system from
the rest of China, where executions are commonplace.
Jutting
appeared in court yesterday charged with two counts of murder. He did
not enter a plea and did not seek bail. He will next appear on 10
November.
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