Brit psycho banker Rurik Jutting was ‘off the scale’ mentally when he tortured and butchered two prostitutes
TWISTED killer Rurik Jutting was ''off the scale'' mentally when he horribly tortured and killed two sex workers, a court has heard.
Fuelled by drugs and alcohol Jutting, 31, used a belt, knife and pliers during his sadistic three day ordeal on Sumarti Ningsih, 23 before slashing her throat.
Days later he struck again - preparing a new DIY torture kit including a blow torch, sex toys and sandpaper and killing Seneng Mujiasih, 26, the same way.
Defence barrister Tim Owen QC, opened his summing up by apologising to the jury for the brutal video they had seen of Jutting carrying out his evil acts.
Some had visibly flinched during its screening when the trial at Hong Kong's High Court opened two weeks ago as it relived the murders in October 2014 in his luxury 31st floor apartment.
Mr Owen added: ''I'm not asking you to feel sympathy for Rurik Jutting, I'm not asking you to feel sorry for him but I want you to understand why he acted in the awful, awful way that he did.''
He went on: ''Mr Jutting is undoubtedly a killer but he is not a liar.''
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The jury listened as Mr Owen said: ''He was as far from normal as is possible to be, he was off the scale not just in terms of his mental state, without any strand of normality.''
He told them: ''I'm sure you will never forget the reality of the horror those two women had to endure and the dreadful circumstances in which their lives were ended by the man I represent.''
Mr Owen described once again how a series of defence experts had concluded Jutting suffered from drug abuse, alcohol addiction, sadistic sexual disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
He said this combination had led him to plan and kill the two women and as such -- although clearly guilty of killing them -- he was acting under diminished responsibility.
Mr Owen said Jutting's ''golden life'' had begun to spiral downwards rapidly after he moved to Hong Kong in September 2013 with employers Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The Cambridge Uni graduate was living in a world of cocaine, alcohol, sex workers and extreme hard core violent porn as he lived alone in his flat watching Breaking Bad and gaming on his PlayStation.
Mr Owen said the £350,000 a year former banker had ''access to industrial amounts of cocaine'' after being given the number of a local Hong Kong dealer and was ''never fully sober''.
He told the jurors: ''This brilliant superman, a tax specialist investment banker, earning several million Hong Kong dollars a year had become a bloated, unshaven, intoxicated drug and alcohol addict.
''His mind was obsessed with sexual sadistic fantasies in which he gained pleasure from inflicting pain on others without their consent.''
Mr Owen revealed how Jutting's maternal grandfather was a Hong Kong police officer who had been booted out of the force after accepting bribes from Triad gangsters.
His mother Helen had called him Rurik as it meant ''great one and special one'' and this had filled his narcissism, Mr Owen told the court.
And he also revealed that Jutting - who studied history and law at Cambridge had an IQ of 137 putting him in the top 1% of the population in Britain.
Mr Owen asked the jury of five men and four women: "Did the abnormality of mind substantially affect his mental responsibility for his actions?"
He argued prosecution claims that he was acting calm and concisely before and after the killings "make no sense in the light of other conclusions".
Mr Owen said: "The idea that he exercised freedom of choice by taking drugs and alcohol in order to kill is just nonsense.
"They were disorders operating in the mind of a man who was suffering from sexual sadism disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
"He was completely consumed by his sadistic fantasies and the cocaine and alcohol was keeping him going.
"He remembered what he was doing and he knew what he was doing but that is different from being in control."
Mr Owen repeated Jutting was the only person responsible for the two deaths and said the jury should reserve "sympathies for the families of the two women who met their deaths in horrible circumstances".
He concluded by asking the jury to put aside feelings of revenge and anger, to consider all the evidence and convict Jutting only of manslaughter.
Earlier the prosecutor John Reading SC had given his summing up dismissing Jutting's claims of dismissed responsibility insisting he was fully in control of his actions when he killed.
Mr Reading told the jury: ''I have referred to the victims by their names, until the defendant took their lives they were human beings not inanimate objects or sex toys as described by him.
He also underlined how calm and collected Jutting had been in the video monologues he recorded after the killings and in his police interviews later.
Mr Reading said although Jutting suffered from disorders and had been under the influence of cocaine and alcohol there was no significant evidence that his control was impaired.
He added of Sumarti's death: ''During the course of the killing he knew what he was doing in that he was able to describe the details. He knew what he was doing and was able to recall it.''
Mr Reading said buying a DIY torture kit ahead of selecting second victim Seneng was ''indicative of a plan and he was clearly planning to kill her''.
He said that Jutting's constant use of cocaine and alcohol in the run up to the murders was also a sign of his control and that it was a form of ''Dutch courage to give him the boost to kill''.
Mr Reading also reminded the jury of how in one of his video monologues Jutting had said ahead of the second killing ''how many life sentences can one serve?''
He told the jury: ''He was talking about another life sentence, he was talking about killing again. He was talking about turning his sexual fantasies into reality.''
Mr Reading closed his argument by saying: ''Miss Ningsih was killed because she could recognise the man who inflicted so much terrible torture on her.
''Miss Mujiasih was killed because she did not oblige. He wanted to kill. The evidence point beyond any reasonable doubt he is guilty of murder on both counts.''
Jutting, formerly of Cobham, Surrey, denies two counts murder but admits killing both women due to diminished responsibility.
He has pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful burial of Sumarti's body, which was found hidden in a suitcase on his balcony.
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