British banker fit to stand trial in HK murders

Hong Kong

A BRITISH banker accused of killing two Indonesian women was on Monday ruled fit to stand trial, but there will be a delay of months as prosecutors comb over forensic evidence found with the victims' mutilated bodies in his Hong Kong apartment.

Judge Bina Chainrai said Rurik Jutting, a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee, was mentally fit to face murder charges after two weeks of examinations at the maximum-security Siu Lam psychiatric centre.