Court Rejects British Banker Jutting's Appeal Bid

British former banker Rurik Jutting, jailed for life for a double murder in Hong Kong, has failed in his attempt to take his case to the Court of Final Appeal.

The Cambridge University graduate was found guilty of brutally killing two Indonesian women in his Wan Chai apartment during a cocaine-fuelled rampage in 2014.

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday refused to grant a certificate to him to challenge his conviction in the top court, after ruling there’s no legal questions of “great general importance” in the case.

Jutting's lawyer had suggested the trial judge had not properly dealt with the issue of diminished responsibility arising from his client’s mental disorders.

But the appeal court decided that the judge had correctly applied the law.

Jutting can still take his appeal bid directly to the Court of Final Appeal, but that will be his last available option.

The former Bank of America employee tortured Sumarti Ningsih for three days – filming parts of her ordeal on his phone – before slashing her throat with a serrated knife and stuffing her body into a suitcase.

Days later, and with Ningsih's corpse rotting on his balcony, Jutting picked up Seneng Mujiasih, intending to play out the same sick fantasies. But he killed her when she started screaming.

The trial judge had described the murders as "sickening in the extreme" and said they went beyond a normal person's imagination.