Rurik Jutting murders: British man confesses to torturing and beheading Hong Kong sex worker in self-shot video

'It's Monday night. I've held her captive since early Saturday, I've raped her repeatedly, I tortured her, tortured her badly,' says accused

A Hong Kong Correctional Services van takes Rurik Jutting from the High Court (EPA)

A jury in Hong Kong watched a chilling video of a British banker describing how he tortured and killed an Indonesian woman he met in a bar, saying he repeatedly raped her.

In the video he shot, Rurik Jutting, a Cambridge University graduate on trial in Hong Kong's High Court for the murder of two Indonesian women, can be seen shirtless in his flat.

"My name is Rurik Jutting. About five minutes ago I just killed, murdered, this woman here," he says into the camera. He also pointed the camera down briefly to show the body of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, lying face down in a bathroom.

Moments later he holds up his hand, which can be seen shaking.

"It's Monday night. I've held her captive since early Saturday, I've raped her repeatedly, I tortured her, tortured her badly."

General view of apartment J Residence is shown in Hong Kong (Getty)

He rambles on to the camera in several video clips, talking about doing cocaine and using prostitutes, in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Jutting, 31, watched the video from the glass-screened dock, at times looking down at a transcript of the video in front of him. He wore a pale blue shirt and appeared much slimmer than court appearances last year.

The graphic video was shown on the second day of Jutting's trial for murdering Ms Sumarti and Seneng Mujiasih, 26.

Their bodies were found in his expensive flat near the Asian financial centre's Wan Chai red-light district in 2014 in a case that shocked the city, which has a reputation for being safe but also has extreme inequality among its foreign workers.

Rurik Jutting, a British banker, sitting in a prison bus (AP)

The former British colony has a large white-collar expatriate elite alongside more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers, almost all of them women from Indonesia or the Philippines.

Earlier, the jurors were played about 20 minutes of video in which Jutting is apparently torturing Ms Sumarti. The media and public could not view it, but were able to hear the audio.

At one point he can be heard saying: "If you scream I will punish you. Understand?"

That is followed by the sound of smacking and slapping.

Jutting, who worked in the Hong Kong office of Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in structured equity finance and trading, pleaded not guilty on Monday to two murder charges.

Prosecutors rejected his attempt to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. If convicted, he faces life in prison.