A British banker booked a prostitute for £1,000 days before her mutilated body was found stuffed in a suitcase at his Hong Kong apartment, it was claimed today.
Rurik Jutting hooked up with mother-of-two Sumarti Ningsih - and his other alleged victim Jesse Lorena - on several occasions after picking them up from clubs, a source told MailOnline.
In a separate development, a fellow sex worker claimed Jutting had been spotted 'strangling' Miss Lorena during a row outside a nightclub hours before she was killed.
A friend also made wild claims that the Cambridge graduate would hold drug-fuelled sex parties lasting two or three days at his flat after 'picking up ten or eleven' girls at time.
The friend told MailOnline: 'He would pay each girl around HK$11,000 (£900) for the whole night, so in total it would cost him about HK$121,000 (£10,000) per party.
'There's a pool at the roof of J Residence and the building has a sauna, steam bath and a function room where he would bring some girls sometimes, but not for parties.'
THE £200-A-NIGHT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO PLY THEIR TRADE IN HONG KONG'S RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
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.
|t is understood the two women allegedly murdered by Jutting had travelled from their homes in Indonesia to seek a better life - and earn enough money to send back to their families, it is understood.
Sumatra Ningsih, the 25-year-old whose decomposing body was found on the balcony of the apartment which Jutting was renting, had travelled to the former British colony only a month ago from her home in the central Java city of Cilacap.
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.
The second woman, aged 30, who has been living in Hong Kong for up to eight years, was known as Jesse Lorena Ruri.
Officials who take responsibility for foreigners in the colony said that was not her real name.
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.
'Jesse' 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.
According to a spokesman for Indonesia’s Head of Development and Productivity Placement Miss Ningsih had approached a private ‘placement company’ in Calacap, 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 last night that they were still trying to trace family members of both women who might not be aware of the grisley murders.
Referring to the 25-year-old, a spokesman for the Department of Social Welfare and Manpower, said: 'We are trying to trace the address of Miss Ningsih,’
Calacap, 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.
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.
'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 the second prostitute, 25-year-old Indonesian Sumarti Ningsih.
Her arms and legs had been bound with rope and her head was almost cut off, according to police at the scene. Her body is thought to have been there for as many as five days.
Sex toys and cocaine were also reportedly found, along with a 12-inch knife that was seized by officers.
Sumarti, the suitcase victim, had only been in Hong Kong a month, having travelled from her home in Indonesia to seek a better life – and earn enough money to send back to her family in Cilacap, on the island of Java. She was described as a ‘small and quiet’ girl.
A Hong Kong newspaper, Ming Pao, said that Jutting had been talking 'delirious nonsense' to the police when they arrived.
Jutting, who moved to Hong Kong from London in July last year, quit his high-earning job in the city, where expat bankers lead notoriously hedonistic lifestyles.
He appears to have posted to Facebook last Monday that he was embarking on a 'new journey'.
He wrote: 'Stepping down from the ledge. Burden lifted; new journey begins. Scared and anxious but also excited.
'The first step is always the hardest.'
