“I’ve always had dark fantasies,” said the man on the videotape. The unfortunate jury charged with deciding the fate of Rurik Jutting, now seated before them, could already attest to this. They had already listened to an hours-long monologue full of them and been shown the terrible result.
Jutting, a Cambridge-educated British banker, had described how he had lured poor prostitutes back to his high-end Hong Kong apartment. Sometimes, he abused them—and sometimes worse, as demonstrated right on camera. “About five minutes ago I just killed, murdered, this woman here,” he says in one segment, briefly pointing the camera down to show a nude woman laying facedown in his tub.
In his drug-fueled ramblings, he veers wildly from self-loathing and thoughts of suicide to expressing his wish to return to England to kidnap British schoolgirls. His trial is currently ongoing, but there seems to be little doubt as to the outcome.