(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women was yesterday ruled fit to stand trial, but the case will be delayed for seven months for analysis of forensic evidence found with the victims' mutilated bodies in his Hong Kong apartment.
Magistrate Bina Chainrai said Rurik Jutting, a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee, was mentally fit to face murder charges after two weeks of examination at the maximum-security Siu Lam psychiatric centre.
The 29-year-old was charged with the murders of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih after police found the bodies of the two women in his upmarket flat, one of them decomposing in a suitcase. In a surprise decision Chainrai agreed to the prosecution's request to delay the trial until July 6 while investigators comb through hundreds of pieces of evidence.
Dressed in the same black T-shirt he had worn when he last appeared in court two weeks ago, Jutting stood impassively in the dock as the magistrate made her ruling in a packed but silent courtroom. Prosecutor Louise Wong told the court that investigators would need 28 weeks to examine some 200 pieces of evidence, including conducting DNA tests.
Legal Disclaimer:
MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.