Former banker and sadistic murderer Rurik Jutting will not get to appeal his life sentence for brutally slaying two Indonesian women during a drug-fueled rampage at his luxury Wan Chai flat in 2014.
The Appeal Court today rejected the 32-year-old’s application for permission to appeal the prison term, saying it had “no merit whatsoever,” RTHK reported.
Jutting was convicted of double murder in 2016. He tortured Sumarti Ningsih during a three-day drug fueled rampage before slashing her throat with a serrated knife and stuffing her body into a suitcase.
With Ningsih’s corpse on his balcony, the former Bank of America worker, just days later, picked up Seneng Mujiasih, intending to play out the same fantasies and killed her when she started screaming.
Jutting’s lawyers in December argued that trial judge Michael Stuart-Moore had misdirected jurors and served a “fatal” blow to his defense.
They claimed the judge had made an “extremely serious error” by directing jurors to take a “narrow” view of “abnormality of mind,” which is grounds for diminished responsibility.
During the trial, Jutting, once a high-flying securities trader, admitted killing the women but pleaded guilty to manslaughter, claiming heavy drug and alcohol usage, sexual sadism and narcissistic personality disorders had impaired his responsibility.
But in handing down judgement, a panel of three Appeal Court judges rejected his application for permission to appeal, saying the message given to the jury during the original trial was perfectly clear.
