Mujiasih, who was pronounced dead shortly after being found, also used the name Jesse Lorena Ruri. The apartment was rented by Rurik George Caton Jutting, who was convicted of and sentenced to life imprisonment for their murders on 8 November The two female victims were originally believed to be sex workers from Southeast Asia. Ningsih, 25, is believed to be Indonesian and Lorena, at first unidentified, was thought to be 30, and of Philippine origin. Sumarti Ningsih is believed to have arrived in Hong Kong a month before the murder on a tourist visa, and been murdered on 27 October 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.
Police examined the contents of Jutting's phone, and found about photos. These photos include those of a sadomasochistic nature; Rurik had also taken photos of himself with different portions of the corpses, including sexual organs and the partially severed head of Ningsih, and also said in a video that he killed one of the victims.
Officers checked work and immigration papers while police vans took up positions in the local streets. A reconstruction of the murders was scheduled for 8 November Indonesian police have been coordinating with Interpol and the Foreign Office to find out more about this event. They also collected antemortem data required to identify the victims. Sumarti Ningsih a. After graduating from elementary school, she married and had a son who was five years old at the time of her death.
Ningsih first went to Hong Kong in , where she worked as domestic helper for two years and eight months. When she returned to Indonesia in , she attended a disc jockey course for five months in Yogyakarta. Ningsih returned to Hong Kong in August with a tourist visa, looking for a new job as disc jockey. Before the murders, she told her family that she intended to return home on 2 November Seneng Mujiasih a. A friend of Jutting while he was a student at Cambridge said he was 'awkward' around girls.
