Inside the seedy red-light district where Brit banker murdered two prostitutes
dailystar.co.ukrelated crimes, like soliciting in a public place, kerb-crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering.This is the case in much of the western world, where some countries outlaw prostitution as a whole, jailing those who engage in it.But that isn't the case globally.
The practice is extremely popular in the eastern part of the world, particularly Asia. A 2011 study from the Asian Commission on AIDS estimated there were 10 million sex workers in Asia and 75 million male customers.And it was in Hong Kong where a British banker turned a busy region into a killing ground.Former Bank of America Merrill Lynch trader Rurik Jutting was found guilty of killing two prostitutes he picked up in Wan Chai in 2014.The two women were found murdered at the J Residence, an enormous residential building, on November 1.
Jutting had phoned the police himself that morning, and when they arrived a 12-inch knife, sex toys and cocaine were found at the apartment.
Jesse Lorena was found lying naked on the floor, with wounds on her neck, throat and backside. 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.
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