A former Hong Kong banker slaughtered two hookers in his high rise apartment after snorting enough cocaine too put most people in a “coma,” jurors heard Wednesday at his murder trial.
British-born Rurik Jutting, 31, who was employed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been charged in the Oct. 2014 savage slayings of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in his luxury apartment in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai red light district.
During the testimony on Wednesday in High Kong’s High Court, a key prosecution witness revealed that Jutting consumed 60 grams of coke — about 2 ounces — over a three day period, along with a virtual vat of wine while torturing Ningsih, and then cutting her throat, according to the Mirror.
“He had a liberal use of alcohol with three to four bottles of wine a day, allowing him to use a huge amount of the stimulant drug (cocaine),” Dr. Lau Fei Lung, director of Hong Kong’s Poisoning Information Centre, told the jury.
“Three to four bottles of wine daily would result in many social drinkers falling into a coma,” Lung testified, adding that Jutting also downed Red Bull energy drinks.
Lung noted that Jutting was sniffing poor quality cocaine, which led to his extreme use of the drug in order to get high.
As an example, the doctor pointed to 27 empty packets of coke that were found by police, explaining that “10 grams at this concentration would be normal to three grams of [high purity] cocaine. It has been reported that people can consume that dose without fatality.”
After killing Ningsih in the early morning hours of Oct. 27, 2014, Jutting allegedly took a slew of iPhone photos holding up her nearly decapitated head.
Her badly decomposed body – with maggots crawling over it — was later discovered stuffed in a suitcase on his 31st floor balcony, officials said.
Four days later, he tortured and killed Mujiasih, prosecutors charge.