- .Sumarti Ningsih's 'almost decapitated' body found at Rurik Jutting's flat
- .Her parents only told of death as trader appeared in court over murders
- .Father: 'Told me to remain calm, that nothing can be done - it is destiny'
- .Jutting left 'devastated' after fiancee cheated on him with another man
- .Former public schoolboy has dated a string of beautiful Asian women
- .Cambridge graduate had relationship with a British fashion student
- .He vowed to kill himself because of ongoing depression, claims ex-lover
The parents of an Indonesian prostitute whose butchered corpse was found at a British banker's flat in Hong Kong have called for the killer to receive the death penalty.
Sumarti Ningsih's 'almost decapitated' and decomposing body was found stuffed in a suitcase on Rurik Jutting's balcony over the weekend.
The former city trader has been charged with her murder and that of another sex worker, Jesse Lorena, who was found by police with her throat slashed.
Speaking for the first time since their daughter's brutal killing, Miss Ningsih's father, Ahmed Kaliman, said the person responsible should be sentenced to death.
Distraught: The family of murdered prostitute Sumarti Ningsih whose mutilated body was found in the Hong Kong flat of British banker Rurik Jutting have called for their daughter's killer to be given the death penalty
'Chopped up': Sumarti Ningsih's 'almost decapitated' and decomposing body was found stuffed in a suitcase on Rurik Jutting's balcony over the weekend
Victim: Friends said Sumarti had travelled to Hong Kong from her home in Indonesia to seek a better life and send money back to their families
Hong Kong abolished capital punishment in 1993 when it was still a British colony.
He said he and his wife Suratmi only learned of their daughter's brutal killing yesterday as Jutting appeared in court over the double murder.
Mr Kaliman told the BBC's Indonesian language service: 'I received a call from Hong Kong in the afternoon.
'They told me to remain calm. There is nothing that can be done - it is destiny.'
Mr Kaliman, 49, who lives in a small village in Indonesia's Cilacap regency, said his daughter was on her third trip to Hong Kong and planned to fly home the day after her death.
He sent her a text message on Sunday, but did not receive a reply.
Stunned: Mis Ningsih's father and mother, Suratmi (pictured), were told of their daughter's death on Monday as Jutting appeared in court charged with the double murder
'Let our Sumarti come home': Miss Ningsih's family (holding her picture, above) have appealed to the Hong Kong authorities to repatriate the mother-of-one's body as soon as possible
Her family are now appealing to the Hong Kong authorities to repatriate the mother-of-one's body as soon as possible.
It came as friends told how the two victims had travelled from their homes in Indonesia to seek a better life and send money back to their families.
One of Miss Ningsih's friends said she had left her five-year-old son, Muhammad Hafidz Arnovan, to study back in Indonesia.
She had been raising the boy without the father.
'Her family is so sad,' the friend told The Daily Telegraph. 'She was a good girl, nice and always happy.'
Meanwhile, further details of Jutting's sordid life were revealed as an acquaintance claimed he had been left 'devastated' when his fiancee cheated on him after she moved to New York.
The former public schoolboy and Cambridge graduate dated a string of beautiful Asian girls from around the world and last year had a relationship with a stunning British fashion student.
Part of the social scene: Sumarti Ningsih sits on a bar with an unidentified friend in Hong Kong
Tragic loss: Miss Ningsih's father said his daughter was on her third trip to Hong Kong and planned to fly home the day after her death
Last night, fresh claims emerged that he was obsessed with having sex with 'two or three women' and held drug-fuelled sex parties lasting for days at his flat.
But it was also suggested that he had been left 'devastated' when a fellow city trader cheated on him two years ago after the pair had been engaged to be married.
Friends speaking to the Evening Standard described Jutting as 'very sharp, very bright, and perceptive' and 'more a leader than a follower' while a pupil at £34,000-a-year Winchester College.
Speaking anonymously, one said they assumed Jutting was looking for a job reference when his name appeared in the subject line of an email following his arrest on Saturday.
'If they had been looking for a reference, I'd have said: I wouldn't want to spend more than an hour in a room with him, but he was incredibly bright.'
Another said of the schoolboy Jutting: 'He was more a leader than a follower. He wasn't assertive particularly, but was a bit over the top in his mannerisms.
'He was arrogant rather than aloof. He was quite pleased with himself.'
A third Winchester contemporary added: 'I'd say he was - it may seem surprising - rather attractive. He had a sort of controlled poise and a certain understated smugness, a sort of superior air, but lightly worn.
'He seemed quite detached. I'd never have described him as affable.'
Former schoolmates also spoke of their shock at seeing Jutting looking bloated in recent photographs - adding that they remember him as being 'slim, tanned and attractive.'
Throat slashed: Jesse Lorena was also found dead at Jutting's apartment in Hong Kong's red-light district
Jesse Lorena (pictured posing with cash) was found by police with her throat slashed at Jutting's apartment
Seeking a better life: Thousands of young Indonesian women leave the country in search of a better life and take up a variety of jobs, many of them in the domestic service industry in Hong Kong and elsewhere
And it was claimed he had vowed to kill himself because of his ongoing depression.
Channel 4 News said it had spoken to a former girlfriend who claimed Jutting was deeply unhappy because of his job.
The woman, who did not want to be named, dated Jutting for about two months after meeting him in July 2013 – the month he moved to Hong Kong – in a bar where she worked.
'He's a perfectionist,' she told the program. 'He was a very nice person with me because I was his girlfriend. He was always strict with other people.
'He told me that he had financial problems and some issues with stuff. Last October he told me that he tried to kill himself.
'I think he tried to kill himself because he's under pressure with his job. He was depressed.'
She added: 'He liked a variety of sex, two or three girls. He was never violent towards me.'
An acquaintance in the banking world recalled Jutting being distraught two years ago after his then-fiancée – a fellow British trader – cheated on him with another man.
The woman, named by The Telegraph as Sarah Butt, 28, had met Jutting in 2010 when they were both working for Barclays in London.
Victim: One of the two women discovered inside Jutting's luxury apartment in Hong Kong. The woman, named locally as Jesse Lorena Ruri, was 30 years old and originally from the Philippines
Horrific death: Officers arrived at Jutting's blood-spattered 31st-floor apartment to find Jesse Lorena Ruri still alive despite gaping knife wounds to her throat and buttocks, but she died soon after
However, she reportedly had kissed another man after moving to New York from London to work for Goldman Sachs last year.
Although the couple attempted to rekindle their romance - even getting engaged for a short time - Jutting struggled to get over the 'affair' and ended the relationship a short time later.
Jutting is also believed to have dated glamorous British fashion student Sonya Dyer, 29, once said to have described him as her 'hubby'. Asked about him at her flat in West London last night, she tearfully declined to comment.
After leaving £34,000-a-year Winchester College, he graduated in 2008 from Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he studied law and history and was secretary of the university's history society.
The ex-girlfriend: Banker Rurik Jutting pictured with his former partner Ariane Guarin, also known as Yanie
Fashion student: He also dated glamorous British fashion student Sonya Dyer, 29, once said to have described him as her 'hubby'
Jutting then worked as a trader at Barclays Bank in London for two years before joining Merrill Lynch. In 2013, he moved to Merrill's Hong Kong office.
He surrounded himself with beautiful Asian women and showed off his new life to friends back home in a series of online updates.
Many of the pictures he posted featured young mother Ariane Guarin from the Philippines – known to friends as Yanie.
The couple uploaded photographs of themselves to their respective Facebook pages in July and August but appear to have broken up by early September.
On September 20, a friend took to Jutting's Facebook page to say she missed the couple and wished they were still together.
Miss Guarin had divided her time between looking after her children in a small town in the Philippines and partying with overweight Jutting, who called her his 'beautiful honey'.
Miss Guarin, whose family live in Angono, a tiny town ten miles east of Philippine capital Manila, is seen wearing necklaces and rings in shots with Jutting and appeared to come into money, with friends asking her for loans on Facebook, where she boasted of building a new home in the Philippines.
Such was their lavish lifestyle together, her friends compared the couple to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – known by the combined name 'Brangelina' – by calling Rurik and Yanie 'Ruyanie'.
Miss Lorena, who is believed to have been officially living in Hong Kong as a domestic helper, also moved to Hong kong for similar reasons and was said to be building a house back home and planned to return there soon.
MailOnline understands that her real name is Seneng Mujiasih and that she comes from the large Indonesian island of Sulawesi, joining the many thousands of young Indonesian women who set out into the ‘outside world’ to take up a variety of jobs, many of them in the domestic service industry.
She has told friends that she had earned enough money in her years in Hong Kong to be able to have a house built for herself and her family in Indonesia.
Hours before her murder, Miss Lorena gleefully told friends she was going to a Halloween party, adding: 'I'm going to have fun.'
Dutch DJ Robert van den Bosch, who has known Miss Lorena for four years, said he heard her talking to two friends outside a pub in Wan Chai’s red light district at around 8.45pm.
Court date: A handcuffed Rurik Jutting is taken to a Hong Kong court by police car after being charged with the murders of the two women
He told the Daily Telegraph: 'She said "I’m going to have fun. I’m going to a Halloween party"
'Those really were the last words. Those are the two things repeating in my head.'
Mr van den Bosch, who works at the pub, said it was a 'shock' when he learned of her brutal death the following day.
He said Miss Lorena had lived in Hong Kong for at least eight years after moving from a small island in Java to 'find a better life'.
Miss Lorena was regularly seen in the pubs and shops in the notorious red-light district, according to locals.
But Mr van den Bosch denied reports that she was a prostitute, saying she was a domestic helper who had been sending money back home to Indonesia where she was building a house.
'The terrible thing is that her house... was just finished and she said she would leave Hong Kong and go back to Indonesia to enjoy life, he added.
Eight hours after her body was found, during a forensic examination of the flat, police officers spotted a suitcase on the balcony which had two feet protruding.
Inside was the decomposing naked body of Miss Ningsih, 25.
According to a spokesman for Indonesia’s Head of Development and Productivity Placement Miss Ningsih had approached a private ‘placement company’ in Cilacap, which found her a job in Hong Kong, although it was not immediately known what that work was.
Officials from several welfare and workers’ organisations said they were still trying to trace family members of both women who might not be aware of the grisly murders.
A spokesman for the Department of Social Welfare and Manpower, said: 'We are trying to trace the address of Miss Ningsih,’
Investigation: Forensics check the crime scene at the luxury £2,000-a-month apartment in Wan Chai district
Grisly discovery: One of the bodies is carried out of the flats after the banker was charged with double murder
Cilacap, a south coast port town lying nearly 200 miles south east of Jakarta, has a population of more than a million and competition for work is said to be intense.
It was cut off from air travel when the airport closed several years ago and travellers are now faced with a tedious journey along roads jammed with motor scooters.
Tourists are put off from visiting because the town’s most well known beaches have become fouled from leakage from shipping vessels that dock nearby.
Despite the authorities' efforts to clean up the area, it is filled with hotel rooms that can be rented by the hour.
One user wrote on the internet: 'The more expensive ones almost seem like normal business hotels – the cheaper ones are like mental hospitals.'
Robberies and money-laundering are also rife and Chinese gangsters are said to run many of the bars.
Wan Chai – where Rurik Jutting is thought to have picked up £200-a-night prostitutes – is Hong Kong's notorious red light district.
Just two blocks away from his apartment, hundreds of bars and clubs are teeming with mainly south-east Asian sex workers, who offer 'lady drinks' to potential customers before discreetly negotiating prices for sex.
The area was made infamous by the 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, about a Chinese prostitute.
Prostitution is legal in Hong Kong, but many women working as 'freelancers' are doing so illegally as they are there on tourist visas – including Miss Ningsih.
Officials who take responsibility for foreigners in the colony said that was not her real name.
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