Family of Hong kong murder victim seeks compensation after her killer is sentenced to life

Record ID: 79717

  • Title: Family of Hong kong murder victim seeks compensation after her killer is sentenced to life
  • Date: 8th November 2016
  • Summary: CILACAP, CENTRAL JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA (NOVEMBER 8, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF THE FAMILY HOME OF SUMARTI NINGSIH, ONE OF THE TWO WOMEN MURDERED IN HONG KONG (FROM LEFT) NINGSIH'S 51-YEAR-OLD MOTHER, SURATMI, NINGSIH'S 7-YEAR-OLD SON MUHAMMAD HAFIZ ARNOVAN AND NINGSIH'S 61-YEAR-OLD FATHER, AHMAD KALIMAN SHOWING PHOTOGRAPH OF NINGSIH
  • Embargoed: 23rd November 2016 11:20
  • Keywords: Hong Kong double murder Rurik Jutting court Indonesia verdict family reaction British Sumarti Ningsih
  • Location: CILACAP, INDONESIA
  • City: CILACAP, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
  • Reuters ID: LVA00157L32H3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The family of one of the two Indonesian women murdered by British former banker Rurik Jutting demanded compensation on Tuesday (November 8) after he was jailed for life for the killings.
    Twenty-three-year-old Sumarti Ningsih was found dead in the luxury apartment of Rurik along with fellow Indonesian Seneng Mujiasih, who was 26.
    Ningsih's parents welcomed the sentence.
    "The verdict is appropriate as the suspect is guilty of premeditated murder. I want to say thank you to the Hong Kong legal system for what they've done and secondly I hope we can get compensation to support Ningsih's son, Muhammad Hafiz Arnovan," Ningsih's father told Reuters at their family home in Indonesia's central Java.
    Ningsih, the only income earner in the family until her sudden death left her parents in charge of her seven-year-old son. Now the family earns money with contract farming.
    Former Bank of America employee Jutting had denied murdering the women in 2014 but the jury found him guilty.
    The jurors rejected his plea of guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility due to alcohol and drug abuse and sexual disorders.
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