Foreign man charged in Hong Kong double killing

HONG KONG – Hong Kong police said Monday that they had charged a foreign man with killing two women, including one whose body was found inside a suitcase on the balcony of the man’s upscale apartment.

Police said the 29-year-old-man had asked them to investigate the case early Saturday at the apartment in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai nightlife and red light district.

Hong Kong news reports said the man was a British national. When asked about the case, Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed that a British citizen had been arrested.

The man was to appear in court on Monday, and a court document listed his name as Rurik George Caton Jutting. Local media reports said he worked in the banking industry, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch spokesman Paul Scanlon said Sunday that a person with that name had worked at the bank until recently.

According to a police statement, officers rushed to the man’s apartment, where they found an unconscious woman, aged 25-30, with cuts to her neck and buttock. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

While investigating, police found a suitcase on the balcony containing the body of a dead woman who had sustained neck injuries, the statement said.

Police said they seized a knife at the apartment, located in Hong Kong’s upscale J Residence building, a 40-story apartment tower.

Hong Kong, one of Asia’s biggest financial hubs, is home to many foreign residents who work as bankers, lawyers, accountants and teachers.

The case is the most high profile involving an expatriate in Hong Kong since the 2003 “Milkshake Murder” case, in which American expatriate housewife Nancy Kissel was convicted of bludgeoning her high-flying banker husband to death after giving him a strawberry milkshake laced with a sedative.