--- title: British Banker Rurik Jutting Appeals Murder Conviction description: The 32 year-old, convicted last year of the murder of two women, applied to appeal his conviction Tuesday in a Hong Kong court. canonical: https://time.com/5058624/rurik-jutting-british-banker-murder-appeal-hong-kong/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-12T07:43:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T23:41:32.000Z article:section: World og:title: British Banker Rurik Jutting Appeals Murder Convictions og:description: He is serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering two Indonesian women og:url: https://time.com/5058624/rurik-jutting-british-banker-murder-appeal-hong-kong/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20446283970c57/6988f4afab6d77e1146b0f86/gettyimages-890626108.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 7984 og:image:height: 4491 og:image:alt: HONG KONG-BRITAIN-MURDER-COURT-JUTTING og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: British Banker Rurik Jutting Appeals Murder Convictions twitter:description: He is serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering two Indonesian women twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba20446283970c57/6988f4afab6d77e1146b0f86/gettyimages-890626108.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # British Banker Rurik Jutting Is Applying to Appeal His Double Murder Conviction > Sponsored content. 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Armed police stand guard as police vehicles accompany a prison van transporting British banker Rurik Jutting outside the High Court for an appeal hearing in Hong Kong on December 12, 2017. ANTHONY WALLACE—AFP/Getty Images by [Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:41 PM UTCPublished: Dec 12, 2017 7:43 AM UTC Rurik Jutting, [convicted](http://time.com/4562078/british-banker-trial-guilty-rurik-jutting-murder/) last year of the murder of two women in Hong Kong in a case that made headlines around the world, applied for leave to appeal his conviction on Tuesday in the territory’s High Court. His defense team argued that errors were made by the previous trial judge in directions given to the jury concerning Jutting’s defense of diminished responsibility. Shuffling through binders of notes on psychiatry, Jutting’s barrister, Gerard McCoy SC, attempted to distinguish between psychiatric disorder and abnormality of mind. He said that Judge Michael Stuart-Moore had “wrongly conflated the psychiatric diagnosis of disorder with the definition of abnormality of mind.” “The error made by the learned judge orally and in writing made repeatedly to the jury was to direct the jury that an abnormality of the mind for the purposes of the homicide ordinance meant a disorder,” McCoy told Justices Michael Lunn, Andrew Macrae and Kevin Zervos. McCoy suggested that Jutting’s abnormality was “far outside the normal range.” Jutting, 32, dressed in a blue shirt and with fist resting under a clean-shaven chin, appeared to follow the proceedings closely. He was surrounded by five correctional officers. In November 2016, a jury unanimously found Jutting, a Cambridge-educated employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, guilty of torturing and killing Indonesian migrant workers Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 28\. The Briton had [pleaded not guilty to murder](http://time.com/4542093/rurik-jutting-hong-kong-banker-murder-manslaughter-seneng-mujiasih-sumarti-ningsih/) but guilty to manslaughter, citing [“diminished responsibility” ](http://time.com/4551073/rurik-jutting-hong-kong-british-banker-trial-defense/)due to substance abuse, and narcissistic and sadistic conditions. The court rejected his defense. Following the verdict, Jutting was given life and has been serving his sentence in a maximum security prison on the southern side of Hong Kong Island.  British banker Rurik Jutting accused of the murders of two Indonesian women, sits in a prison van as he arrives at the eastern court in Hong Kong on May 8, 2015. Anthony Wallace/AFP—Getty Images Jutting’s double murder trial [shocked the world](http://time.com/4543884/british-banker-trial-hong-kong-rurik-jutting-seneng-mujiasih-sumarti-ningsih/) as the gruesome details of the killings emerged, the most incriminating of which came from iPhone footage [shot by Jutting himself](http://time.com/4543884/british-banker-trial-hong-kong-rurik-jutting-seneng-mujiasih-sumarti-ningsih/). He was arrested in November 2014 after calling the police to his high-rise luxury apartment where the two mutilated bodies of the women were found. “I realized how much I enjoyed that combination of alcohol and cocaine and physical torture – it gave me a sense of enjoyment I’d never had with anything,” he later told police. “I knew I would do it again.” At the end of the trial, Judge Michael Stuart-Moore said “This must rank as one of the more horrifying murder cases ever to come to court in Hong Kong.” “During this trial we have been made to dredge the very depths of depravity during the three days of torture he subjected his first victim to,” he added. “He described himself as evil and a monster, and neither is adequate to describe the true nature of what happened.” Tuesday’s appearance was Jutting’s first in public since his trial last year. 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