Inside the Accused Killer Banker's Hong Kong Apartment

British-born Rurik Jutting has been charged with slaying two women.

ByABC News
November 3, 2014, 3:13 PM

— -- The British investment banker charged with killing two women in Hong Kong was the one who called police to his Wan Chai District luxury apartment building at the J-Residence complex, a popular address for foreign expatriate bankers.

Rurik Jutting, the 29-year-old British national who appeared briefly in court today to hear his charges but entered no plea, lived on the 31st floor of a building there.

PHOTO: Jutting was found in his apartment on the 31st floor of J Residence, an upscale building in Hong Kong. This is the floorplan for his floor, though it is not known which exact apartment he lived in.
Jutting was found in his apartment on the 31st floor of J Residence, an upscale building in Hong Kong. This is the floorplan for his floor, though it is not known which exact apartment he lived in.

Many expats live in the upscale building that is made up largely of studio and one bedroom apartments. There are 16 units on the 31st floor, each with its own balcony. The building has 30 residential floors and 10 floors that are used for other purposes, meaning Jutting's home was toward the top of the building.

The building also allows residents access to a sky garden, gym overlooking the city skyline, clubhouse area, cigar and billiard rooms, as well as a karaoke room.

PHOTO: Pedestrians walk in front of the J Residence building front entrance in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2014.
Pedestrians walk in front of the J Residence building front entrance in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2014.
PHOTO: Police are pictured searching Rurik Jutting's apartment in Hong Kong.
Police are pictured searching Rurik Jutting's apartment in Hong Kong.

Jutting, who had been working as a Bank of America Merrill Lynch trader in Hong Kong, was found in the blood-spattered living room, standing over an unconscious woman who had been stabbed multiple times and had her throat sliced, Hong Kong police said.

Police said they first seized a knife from the apartment when they took Jutting into custody but they didn't search the entire apartment for at least eight hours, at which point they went out onto the balcony of the apartment to find a suitcase that contained a second decomposing body.

PHOTO: A general view shows the J Residence building in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2014.
A general view shows the J Residence building in Hong Kong on Nov. 2, 2014.
PHOTO: A policeman takes a photo on the balcony of a unit in which two women's bodies were found on Nov. 1, 2014 in Hong Kong.
A policeman takes a photo on the balcony of a unit in which two women's bodies were found on Nov. 1, 2014 in Hong Kong.