'Something smells bad': Victim's final message from British banker's apartment

An Indonesian woman who was allegedly brutally murdered by British banker Rurik Jutting sent a text message to a friend saying "I want to get out of here" moments before her death, it has been revealed.

The body of Seneng Mujiasih, 30, who also used the name Jesse Lorena, was found by police in Jutting's luxury Hong Kong apartment two weeks ago with wounds to her throat and buttocks.

The badly disfigured corpse of another Indonesian woman, 25-year-old Sumatra Ningsih, was discovered in a suitcase on the balcony. She is thought to have died five days earlier on October 27.

Now the Telegraph has revealed shortly before Ms Mujiasih's death, she told a friend: "Something smells really bad – I want to get out of here."

The friend received no further messages, according to a source close to the victim, who asked not to be named.

It is not clear what the smell she was referring to was, but neighbours had complained of a "dead animal" stench in the building's corridors.

Following Jutting's arrest, they would learn that the smell was coming from the first victim's decomposing body.

Ms Mujiasih met Jetting at nightclub New Makati Pub and Disco between 1.35am and 2.15am on November 1 before heading back to the banker's apartment, according to two witnesses.

Jutting appeared before a magistrate at Hong Kong's Eastern Magistrates' Court for the first time on Monday charged with two counts of murder.

The 29-year-old University of Cambridge graduate was ordered to undertake two psychiatric evaluations.

Until recently he was a high-paid employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong where he had moved in July 2013.

The case has been adjourned until November 24, pending evaluation results.

Author: Chloe Ross, Approving editor: Nick Pearson
Source: Telegraph