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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