The father of a young Indonesian woman murdered in Hong Kong yesterday called for her “sadistic” killer to be put to death, a day after a British former banker appeared in court accused of killing her and a second woman.
The mutilated, decomposing body of 20-something Sumarti Ningsih was found on Saturday in a suitcase on the balcony of Rurik George Caton Jutting’s upmarket apartment.
Jutting, a 29-year-old securities trader who until recently worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, had called police to his home in Wanchai District on Saturday. Investigators found a naked woman with knife wounds to her neck and buttocks in the living room and discovered Ningsih’s body later as they searched the apartment. Court documents state that she was killed on Monday last week.
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Her father told media of his shock and anger at the death of his daughter, who was one of four siblings and had been providing financial support for her family.
“I want the murderer of my child to be sentenced to death. He killed her, sadistically, so he must be put to death,” said Ahmad Kaliman, 58, speaking to reporters in Cilacap, Indonesia.
Hong Kong does not impose the death penalty.
“I also plead for the governments of Indonesia and Hong Kong to return our child’s body as soon as possible. I want her to be buried in Indonesia,” he added.
Kaliman said the family had been informed by one of their daughter’s acquaintances in Hong Kong that she had been killed.
“We were informed by telephone that our daughter was murdered. I was very shocked, especially when I was informed that it was hard to identify the body,” he said.
Kaliman said that his daughter, who had a young son, had transferred some money to his account on Oct. 22, but he had not heard anything from her since.
Police reportedly believe the victims were sex workers, but Ningsih had told her parents she was working in a restaurant.
Ningsih’s parents are farmers who could only afford to put her through elementary school. She went to work in several Indonesian cities, before moving to Hong Kong in 2011 to try to earn money to support her family.
The Indonesian consulate yesterday confirmed that the other victim was Seneng Mujiasih, 29 — who went by Jesse Lorena — and was also Indonesian.
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