Former Banker’s Lawyer Argues Judge Misled Jury in Hong Kong Double Murder Trial

Rurik George Caton Jutting, a British banker charged with two counts of murder after police found the bodies of two women in his apartment, sitting in the back row of a prison bus as he arrives at the Eastern Law Courts in Hong Kong Nov. 24, 2014. Reuters/Bobby Yip/File Photo

HONG KONG—A lawyer for a former British banker who was jailed for life in Hong Kong for the murder of two Indonesian women he tortured and raped said on Tuesday that the judge who presided over the gruesome trial last year had misdirected the jury.