Rurik Jutting, the banker found guilty this week of murdering two prostitutes in his Hong Kong Apartment, had wanted to be a lawyer and took part in vacation schemes at a number of major law firms.  

Jutting was briefly a poster boy for Latham & Watkins, after the firm used his review of its vac scheme in its promotional material. Jutting attended a vac scheme at Latham & Watkins in 2007, towards the end of his history and law degree at Cambridge University. RollOnFriday readers have written in to say that they worked alongside him at vacation schemes at both Linklaters and Skadden.

Jutting quit his job at bank of America Merrill Lynch a couple of days before the women were found dead. His automated email reply read "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath."

  A former Skadden intern, yesterday
 

A jury in Hong Kong this week found Jutting guilty of murdering the two Indonesian women Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih in 2014. Jutting provided a statement via his lawyer expressing remorse for the killings which said "I remain haunted daily both by memory of my actions... and by knowledge of the acute pain I have caused their loved ones". He was sentenced to life in prison.

Skadden, Linklaters and Latham all declined to comment.

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