Killer of women in Hong Kong ‘must die’

Sumarti Ningsih, 23, was found dead in a suitcase at Cambridge-educated Rurik George Caton Jutting’s apartment in the city’s Wan Chai district on Saturday.

Police had been called to the property on Halloween night and first found 29-year-old Seneng Mujiasih with wounds to her throat and buttocks. She died a short time later.

Jutting, 29 and originally from Cobham in Surrey, appeared in court on Monday charged with the murders and was remanded in custody.

Ms Ningsih’s father, Ahmad Kaliman, said the women’s killer should be sentenced to death and pleaded for his daughter’s body to be returned home.

He said: “I ask the government of Indonesia to help me return my daughter to me. She was an Indonesian citizen. Please help return her body as soon as possible.

“I was told she was killed, mutilated and packaged into a suitcase. What can you do? This is fate.”

Mr Kaliman said his daughter had travelled to Hong Kong on a tourist visa about two months ago.

She was expected to return home to central Java in Indonesia on November 2, but she was killed on October 27, six days before her body was discovered in an advanced state of decomposition.

It took officers eight hours to find her body in the suitcase on the balcony of Jutting’s flat in the upmarket 40-storey J Residence after attending to Ms Mujiasih.