A Hong Kong court has set a trial date of October 2016 for the British banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women a year ago, including one whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase.
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Jutting, who did not appear in court, will face a jury trial which is set to take 20 days.
He has been in custody since his arrest last November after the women’s bodies were found in his Hong Kong apartment. After being charged for the double murder, Jutting was found fit to plea following a psychiatric assessment at the end of 2014. A recent high-profile High Court corruption case involving tycoons and government officials that ended in December also took almost a year to get to trial.
The windows of Jutting’s upmarket apartment near Hong Kong’s Wanchai district.
Police were called to the property in October 2014 and first found 29-year-old Ms Mujiasih with wounds to her throat and buttocks.
A grisly scene greeted the police. She died a short time after police arrived. The other woman’s body was found inside a suitcase on the balcony of the apartment, authorities have said.
Both entered the city has domestic helpers but police are investigating if they were working in the sex trade.
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He moved to Hong Kong from London in July 2013 and is understood to have quit his highly-paid job in the days before the deaths of Ms Mujiasih and Ms Ningsih.
