A British
banker has been arrested on suspicion of a double murder after the
bodies of two prostitutes were discovered in his up-market apartment in
Hong Kong.
The 29-year-old allegedly called police to his home early yesterday morning, shortly after killing a woman, police said.
Officers rushed
to the J Residence – a development of exclusive properties in the
city’s Wan Chai district popular with young expatriate executives and
bankers – and found the naked body of a woman aged between 25 and 30.
She had suffered a series of knife wounds.
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Government workers remove the body of a woman
who was found dead at a flat in Hong Kong’s Wan chai district in the
early hours of this morning. A British man was been arrested in
connection with the murders
The body of a
second woman was discovered in a suitcase on the balcony of the
apartment. The victim had been tied up and is believed to have been left
there for around a week.
Sex toys and cocaine were found in the apartment along with a knife, according to a police source.
The Briton, who
is understood to work for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and is thought
to have moved to Hong Kong from London two years ago, was still being
questioned last night after being arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police were
called by the banker at 3.42am yesterday morning. The woman found dead
inside the apartment is believed to have been killed shortly before the
call was made.
British banker arrested for double murders in Hong Kong
A second victim was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the balcony of the residential flat in Hong Kong
Forensics teams investigate the scene where the bodies were discovered – and a knife was also seized today
She was found with two wounds to her neck and her throat had been slashed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The body on the balcony, wrapped in a carpet and inside a black suitcase, was not found by police until eight hours later.
Assistant
district commander Wan Siu-hung told local reporters that the woman, who
is believed to be Indonesian and aged around 25, was thought to have
died about a week ago.
A police source
quoted by the South China Morning Post said: ‘She was nearly
decapitated and her hands and legs were bound with ropes. ‘She was naked
and wrapped in a towel before being stuffed into the suitcase.’ Her
passport was found at the scene.
Wan Chai District Assistant Commander Wan Siu-hung speaking to reporters about the double murders
The 40-storey J Residence is reportedly a high-end development favoured by junior expatriate bankers
Police said
CCTV footage from the apartment block showed the banker and the first
woman returning to the 31st floor of the apartment block just after
midnight, Hong Kong time, yesterday. One resident in the 40-storey
block, where most of the residents are expatriates, said he had noticed
an unusual smell in recent days.
‘There was a
stink in the building like a dead animal,’ he told a local newspaper.
Flats measuring just 350 square feet in the 30-storey development sell
for more than £550,000 and can be rented for around £1,700 a month.
Wan Chai is
also home to a bustling nightclub scene of ‘girly bars,’ popular with
expatriate men and staffed by sex workers from the Philippines and
Indonesia.
The suitcase that concealed the body on the balcony measured about three feet by 18 inches.
Police said that when they arrived at the scene a woman was found unconscious and lying inside the flat
Post-mortem examinations will be conducted later to ascertain the causes of death of the deceased
The body had badly decomposed by the time it was found.
A police source
said that the scene of the latest murder was among the grisliest the
city had seen since the so-called ‘milkshake murder’ which took place in
2003.
In that case,
American Nancy Kisel murdered her husband Robert, a Merrill Lynch
investment banker, in their luxury home, bludgeoning him to death after
giving him a drug-laced milkshake. She was jailed for life.
A spokesman for
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said last night: ‘We can confirm
that a British national has been arrested in Hong Kong.
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