– Body in suitcase –
Wanchai is known for its late-night drinking holes popular with expatriate revellers, and is home to a thriving red light district where sex workers, many of them from Southeast Asia, ply their trade.
“There’s a possibility that both victims are Indonesian,” Indonesia’s consul-general in Hong Kong, Chalief Akbar, told AFP. “We are still waiting for confirmation from the police.”
Consulate officials said Ningsih, 25, had overstayed her one-month tourist visa.
“According to the time stamp of the passport, she came to Hong Kong on September 1,” said deputy consul-general Rafail Walangitan, adding she was supposed to leave the city at the start of October.
Officers said earlier that maggots were found in the corpse hidden in a suitcase, which appeared to have been there for several days.
“This body belonged to a person who has passed away for quite some time,” police assistant district commander Wan Siu-hung told reporters.
A resident said a “disgusting” smell had been emanating from the building.
“It was the smell of a dead body,” the man, who lived on the 11th floor and refused to give his name, told AFP on Sunday.
At Monday’s brief 15-minute hearing, Jutting’s lawyer Martyn Richmond complained that his client was denied contact with British consular officials for 36 hours, as well as access to his preferred defence attorney. Jutting did not seek bail.
Hong Kong, a city of seven million, has low crime rates and only 14 cases of homicide were reported in the first half of the year.
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