Hong Kong manslaughter convict Tsang Man-wai who recruited notorious British banker Rurik Jutting to help with sentence appeal has bid dismissed by court
- Appellant jailed for stabbing his brother to death sought help of Jutting, who shocked world with double murder in Wan Chai flat
- But Tsang’s appeal dismissed with judge saying it ‘did not follow proper practice and procedure”
A judge has slammed an appellant convicted of manslaughter in Hong Kong for taking up court time with a shoddy case that notorious killer Rurik Jutting helped him prepare.
At the Court of Appeal, Tsang Man-wai had applied to take his bid to reduce his life sentence for stabbing his elder brother to death to the Court of Final Appeal, after the lower court dismissed his application two years ago.
But he did so with written submissions drafted by British banker Jutting in a legal challenge that justices said “did not follow proper practice and procedure”.
Jutting, a former Merrill Lynch banker, was jailed for life in 2016 for murdering two Indonesian women, Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in his Wan Chai flat between late October and November 2014.
Acting in person at the hearing on September 25, Tsang told Justices Andrew Macrae, Ian McWalters and Kevin Zervos he sought Jutting’s help after his lawyer said he was unlikely to obtain legal aid to advance his appeal. He said Jutting thought his appeal was “likely to succeed”.
