--- title: Rurik Jutting: Hong Kong Rejects British Banker's Appeal description: Hong Kong's High Court has rejected the appeal of former British banker Rurik Jutting, over a gruesome double-murder in 2014 canonical: https://time.com/5140863/rurik-jutting-hong-kong-appeal-denied/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-09T02:46:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:09.617Z article:section: World og:title: Hong Kong Rejects British Banker's Appeal in Double-Murder og:description: Rurik Jutting was convicted of torturing and killing 2 Indonesian migrant women og:url: https://time.com/5140863/rurik-jutting-hong-kong-appeal-denied/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f34cad1dd1f1e5d/698926d6e76ad228d3630f56/gettyimages-458314104.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: British Banker Jutting Charged With Killing Two Women in Hong Kong og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hong Kong Rejects British Banker's Appeal in Double-Murder twitter:description: Rurik Jutting was convicted of torturing and killing 2 Indonesian migrant women twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f34cad1dd1f1e5d/698926d6e76ad228d3630f56/gettyimages-458314104.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hong Kong Court Denies British Banker Rurik Jutting’s Double Murder Appeal > Sponsored content. 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Rurik Jutting has been found guilty for the murder of two Indonesian women at his luxury apartment._ by [Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong Feb 9, 2018 2:46 AM UTC  Rurik George Caton Jutting, a former Bank of America Corp. employee, leaves the Eastern Magistrates Court in a prison van in Hong Kong, China, on Nov. 3, 2014. Rurik George Caton Jutting, a former Bank of America Corp. employee, leaves the Eastern Magistrates Court in a prison van in Hong Kong, China, on Nov. 3, 2014. Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong Feb 9, 2018 2:46 AM UTC Hong Kong’s High Court has rejected the appeal of former British banker Rurik Jutting, who was convicted for the 2014 murders of two women in Hong Kong. He will not be given a new trial. “There is no merit whatsoever in this ground of appeal,” wrote Justices Michael Lunn, Andrew Macrae and Kevin Zervos, [according](http://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/newjudgments.jsp) to court documents Friday. In a case that made global headlines, a jury unanimously found the 32 year-old guilty of torturing and killing Indonesian migrant workers Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 28, in November 2016\. Jutting, a Cambridge-educated employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, [pleaded not guilty ](http://time.com/4542093/rurik-jutting-hong-kong-banker-murder-manslaughter-seneng-mujiasih-sumarti-ningsih/)to murder, 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 disorders. The court rejected Jutting’s defense and [sentenced him](http://time.com/4562078/british-banker-trial-guilty-rurik-jutting-murder/) to life in prison, which Jutting has been serving in a maximum security prison on the southern side of Hong Kong Island. In December, Jutting [applied](http://time.com/5058624/rurik-jutting-british-banker-murder-appeal-hong-kong/) for leave to appeal his conviction. His lawyers argued that during the trial, the judge had mislead the jury when explaining to them how to understand Jutting’s state of mind in relation to the murders. “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,” Jutting’s barrister, Gerard McCoy SC [told Justices](http://time.com/5060158/rurik-jutting-murder-appeal-british-banker/). Almost two months after the hearings, the Justices rejected Jutting’s appeal. “We are satisfied that having regard to the evidence at trial the judge was entitled to invite the jury to consider approaching their verdicts in that manner,” they wrote in a statement Friday. “Most importantly, the message given to the jury was perfectly clear, namely that it was a matter for them whether they took that view or not.” 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 horrific 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/). In November 2014, Jutting was arrested 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.” ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ CROSSTALK ] Justice justice >> Justice justice [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] Unfortunately. 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