Sumarti Ningsih was found dead, and Seneng Mujiasih near death, on November 1, 2014, in a luxurious one-bedroom apartment in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

The apartment was rented by Rurik George Caton Jutting, who was convicted of and sentenced to life imprisonment for their murders on 8 November 2016.

[6] Jesse Lorena is thought to have resided in Hong Kong for more than eight years,[5] originally worked as a domestic helper,[5] but transitioned to a "part-time disc jockey in a pub" at the time of the murder.

[citation needed] Eight hours after Jutting's arrest, a second partially decapitated female corpse was discovered in a large black suitcase on the balcony of the apartment.

The badly decomposing corpse was partially clothed, wrapped in towels and had her hands and legs bound with ropes.

[6] Following the murders, the Hong Kong police raided the Neptune III basement dance club in the Wan Chai district.

[16][17] Rurik George Caton Jutting is a British citizen, and a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee; he resigned on the Monday before the murders.

[4] He is believed to have started his career working for Barclays Bank in the United Kingdom after graduating from Cambridge with a degree in history and law.

[9] He worked on "tax-minimization trades that are under scrutiny from prosecutors, regulators, tax collectors and the bank’s own compliance department", according to The Wall Street Journal, and he was also reported to be a competitive poker player.

[8] The criminal case, officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region v Jutting Rurik George Caton, ESC3743/14, was heard at the Court of First Instance.

Although four psychiatrists testified that he had narcissistic personality disorder, Jutting was declared mentally fit to stand trial as a result of his November court appearance, with the case adjourned to July 2015.

[citation needed] On 8 November 2016, Jutting was found guilty of two counts of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.