{"id":275830,"date":"2016-10-27T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-banker-took-60g-of-cocaine-while-torturing-killing-prostitute-court-told\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:20:24","slug":"british-banker-took-60g-of-cocaine-while-torturing-killing-prostitute-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-banker-took-60g-of-cocaine-while-torturing-killing-prostitute-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"British banker took 60g of cocaine while torturing &#038; killing prostitute, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British banker Rurik Jutting took up to 60 grams of cocaine while torturing and killing a prostitute, a Hong Kong court has heard. He is also alleged to have harbored fantasies of returning to the UK to kidnap and abuse teenage girls.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 30-year-old is on trial for the murder of two Indonesian women in his flat in the former British colony and finance hub.<\/p>\n<p>In a video seen by authorities, Jutting is heard bragging about the massive amount of cocaine he had taken over the course of the three-day torture of his first victim, 23-year-old Sumarti Ningsih.<\/p>\n<p>He told police he derived a \u201c<em>sense of enjoyment he never had before<\/em>\u201d from his actions and knew then that he would kill again.<\/p>\n<p>Jutting, formerly a banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who studied at the University of Cambridge, has denied murder but admitted to manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in 2014 after the bodies of Ningsih and a second Indonesian woman, 26-year-old Seneng Mujiasih, were found in his apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Interview tapes played in the courtroom reveal some of Jutting\u2019s thought processes during the killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>She was unlucky to be the person in my flat when I realized that physically hurting someone when under cocaine was something I gained satisfaction from,<\/em>\u201d he said of his first victim.<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts told the court that Jutting appeared to have built up a huge tolerance to cocaine and existed on a daily dose of wine, cocaine and Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed his plans to return to the UK and abduct schoolgirls from an expensive boarding school in Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>They would be, say, 15 years old and I would basically turn these three girls into my sex slaves, it would be good to psychologically play them off against each other,<\/em>\u201d he told police.<\/p>\n<p>The trial continues<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/364164-cocaine-banker-torture-murder\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British banker Rurik Jutting took up to 60 grams of cocaine while torturing and killing a prostitute, a Hong Kong court has heard. He is also alleged to have harbored fantasies of returning to the UK to kidnap and abuse teenage girls. The 30-year-old is on trial for the murder of two Indonesian women in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}