A court in Hong Kong has adjourned the trial of a British banker accused of the murders of two women, pending a psychiatric report on the suspect.
29-year-old Rurik Jutting was charged with two counts of murder last week after police found the bodies of two women in his apartment, including one inside a suitcase on a balcony.
British national Rurik Jutting had left a chilling out-of-office email message at the bank from which he recently resigned.
The 29-year-old has been identified as a Cambridge-educated investment banker who had been employed at Bank of America Merrill Lynch until recently.
It is thought that he moved to Hong Kong from London in July last year.
The automatic response for his email account at the bank read:
The message appeared to suggest that he had meant to kill himself.
The mother of one of British banker Rurik Jutting's alleged murder victims says he should bear financial responsibility for her son.
The 29-year-old Brit was privately-educated and studied at Cambridge before becoming an investment banker in London and then Hong Kong.