The appeal bid by Rurik Jutting, the Briton jailed for life over the brutal murders of two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, was dealt another blow on Wednesday, when an appeal court refused to give him the green light to take the case to the city’s top court.
The former Merrill Lynch banker lost his first appeal against his conviction for the murders of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, at the Court of Appeal in February. He filed a subsequent request to the same court for its approval to take his case to the Court of Final Appeal.
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