Briton stands trial over slayings

A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women was ruled on Monday fit to stand trial, but the case was delayed seven months for analysis of forensic evidence found with the victims' mutilated bodies in his Hong Kong apartment.

Magistrate Bina Chainrai said Rurik Jutting, a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee, was found mentally fit to face murder charges after two weeks of examination at the maximum-security Siu Lam Psychiatric Center.

Jutting, 29, was charged with the murders of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih after police found the bodies of the two women, one of them in a suitcase, in his upmarket apartment.