'They have nothing but hate for him and would gladly kill him': Families of Jutting's murdered sex workers to SUE for 'blood money' to support seven-year-old son left without mother

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The families of the two women killed by Rurik Jutting are planning to sue him for compensation - and will demand money to support the seven-year-old boy he left without a mother.

They will also consider filing a lawsuit against the American bank that employed him in the hope of winning a cash settlement. 

A migrant welfare group representing the families of Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih have already consulted with lawyers and plan to sue on their behalf.

Both victims, who were domestic maids in Hong Kong and earning extra money as prostitutes, were the bread-winners for their families in Indonesia. 

Ningsih, 26, has a seven-year-old son, Muhammed, now being cared for by her parents. The family are said to be so poor they cannot afford to send him to school.

Campaigner Eni Lestari said: 'We believe that Jutting should be made to support this child. He killed their mother.'

Motherless: Victim Ningsih, 26, had a son called Muhammed, now aged seven, being cared for by her parents. The family are said to be so poor they cannot afford to send him to school. Pictured: Ningsih's mother Suratmi cradling her grandson at the time of the murders

Devastated and in poverty: Sumarti's mother said she loved coming home and would spend hours in the kitchen, cooking and baking traditional Indonesian desserts for the family. Pictured: Her family with her death certificate

Heartbroken: Seneng, who was known as Jesse Lorena in Hong Kong, sent her family in the poor village of Sido Makmur, south Sulawesi, up to £1,000 at a time. Pictured: Her mother Juminem and father Mujiharjo

Young: Seneng's parents remember her as an innocent teenager (above) who always helped around the house and spent endless hours watching romantic films on TV 

Sumarti is believed to have married young and worked as a nanny in the tiny village of Gandrungmangu, central Java, where she gave birth to her son Mohammad 

Without the income from the two women, the families who live in rural, isolated parts of Indonesia have been left poverty stricken. 

Ningsih is from Cilacap, Indonesia and Mujiasih from Muna Regency in southeast Sulawesi.

Eni Lestari from the International Migrants Alliance said any compensation would be to guarantee the young boy's future and that of the families.

'When the trial is over the families want to sue Jutting for compensation, said Lesarti.

'We will talk with lawyers and see what we can do.

'We believe that Jutting should be made to support this child. He killed their mother and took away the life of another person.'

Final respects: Grieving friends and relatives gathered in the remote Gandrungmangu village in Indonesia this morning for the funeral of Sumarti Ningsih - one of the two women found murdered in Rurik Jutting's luxury Hong Kong apartment

Relatives and villagers carry the coffin of Sumarti Ningsih, one of two Indonesian women killed by British banker Rurik Jutting in Hong Kong, during her funeral at Gandrungmangu village, in Cilacap, Central Java province

With relatives in tears around him, Sumarti Ningsih's brother Mohammed Rohnat, clings on to her coffin

Relatives and villagers place the coffin of Sumarti Ningsih. The mutilated corpses of Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih, both in their 20s, were found in the apartment of the 29-year-old securities trader earlier this month

Ahmad Kaliman, centre, father of Sumarti Ningsih, one of two Indonesian women allegedly murdered by British banker Rurik Jutting in Hong Kong, looks at his daughter's coffin during her funeral at Gandrungmangu village, in Cilacap, Central Java province 

Lestari said the families in Indonesia have only been told the briefest of details about their daughter's deaths.

They do not know they were raped and tortured and suffered other horrific indignities before having their throats cut.

'They do not have access to the internet. All we have told them is that evidence is being heard in the trial,' said Lestari who is chairwoman of the Migrants Alliance representing thousands of migrant workers in Hong Kong.

'They do not need to know the horrors of what went on. I am grateful they are being spared that evidence.

'No woman, no matter what she does, deserves to die in that way. The families want justice.'

She added: 'They do not understand why it has taken so long for this man to stand trial. They have nothing but hate for him and would gladly kill him.'

Lestari said the families of the two women will also consider launching a lawsuit against Bank of America Merrill Lynch who employed Rutting as a £350,000 a year trader.

Left behind: The family of Sumarti Ningsih, killed by British banker Rurik Jutting, depended on her money and cannot send her son to school 

The family of Sumarti Ningsih, who was killed by British banker Rurik Jutting, showed pictures as they described their heartache at the time of the killings in October 2014

Prior to moving to Hong Kong he worked for the bank in London and the court heard he had developed a serious cocaine habit and addiction to using the services of prostitutes.

Jutting told psychiatrists he was under huge amounts of stress from his job and his erratic behaviour likely noticed as he was absent from his job for long periods.

If the families can prove Merrill Lynch bosses were aware Jutting had a cocaine habit and did nothing to help they could file a personal injury suit.

Lesarti said they would look for a lawyer who would work on a no win-no fee basis.

A Hong Kong based personal injury lawyers said the families would have to prove the bank had knowledge of the cocaine use and other behaviour for their lawsuit to succeed.

A migrant workers alliance group hold placards to protest the killings of the two Indonesian women

Indonesian migrant workers staged a demonstration outside the court ahead of the verdict

A police officer stands guard with a shotgun after a prison bus carrying British banker Rurik Jutting arrived at the High Court in Hong Kong

'It is a big ask as Merrill Lynch have hardly been mentioned in the trial,' said the lawyers who asked not to be named but has followed the trial.

' If there was lots of evidence with his bosses covering up for his absence then they have something to work with.

'They will have to show the bank were negligent in the way they dealt with Jutting.'

The lawyer suggested if Jutting made a personal statement implicating the bank the families would have a better chance of winning any lawsuit. 

As hundreds and thousands of Indonesian and Filipino men and women have done before them, Seneng Mujiasih and Sumarti Ningsih had both left for the bright lights of Hong Kong to find well paying jobs so they could send money home.

The parents of both women have called for their daughters' killer, £350,000-a-year banker Rurik Jutting, to be given the death penalty. Pictured: Jutting leaving a Hong Kong jail for his trial last month

Seneng, 26, died before she could see her parents move into the home she had saved up to build them while mother-of-one Sumarti, 23, was killed just days before being reunited with her then four-year-old son Mohammad. 

The anguish felt by his victim's families runs so deep, both have called for justice of the most violent kind.

'He must die with the knife. It must be plunged into him time and again, so that he suffers and then dies,' Seneng's mother Juminem told MailOnline from her ramshackle home on Indonesia's Muna Island, a quiet rural community where she raised her daughter.

Her brother Suswantoro Mujiasih said he wants the British banker severely punished.

In a statement issued on behalf of the family he said he would prefer that the 31 year old be executed.

The former British colony of Hong Kong no longer has the death penalty having been abolished in the 1990s.

Indonesia still has the death penalty but it is mostly used in drug smuggling cases.

The family spokesman said: ' he family hoped the perpetrator will be severely punished and it could to be executed.'

Sumarti's father Ahmed Kaliman shared a similar view, saying at the time of the killings: 'He killed my daughter so I want him to be sentenced to death.' 

Seneng, whom he allegedly planned to torture with a blowtorch, left her tiny village of Sido Makmur with three friends in 2007.

Better known as Jesse Lorena in Hong Kong, she is said to have enjoyed her new found freedom but never forgot about her family - sending them up to £1,000 in cash whenever she could.

Her rundown boarding house was just yards from Jutting's flashy apartment, but she ran into difficulty when she was sacked as a domestic worker in 2011.

Seneng turned to prostitution for fear her dream to save up to build her parents a house might collapse - but never told them.

'We always believed she was going off to work in a restaurant,' said her mother Juminem. 

'We have read things that tell us differently and we don't know how things changed over there. 

Seneng (pictured) turned to prostitution when she was sacked as a domestic worker in 2011

'I don't want to think of what she might have ended up doing. I only want to remember her as she was, alive, smiling, happy-go-lucky.'

Every corner of their ramshackle home in Sido Makmur, where coconut trees hang over the unpaved streets, conjures up memories of their carefree daughter playing as a schoolgirl.

Many of the photos to emerge since her death show Seneng wearing skimpy dresses, posing sexily with wads of Thai baht and dollar bills.

But to her parents Juminem and Mujiharjo, she remains the same teenager who always helped around the house and spent endless hours watching her favourite movies and shows on TV.

'She was always something of a romantic,' said Juminem. 'Before she set off for Hong Kong she loved to sit indoors watching love stories on TV. We couldn't drag her away.'

At 3.45am, police found her bleeding to death in Jutting's high rise apartment with her throat slashed and knife wounds to her buttocks. Pictured: Jutting being driven to court in a police van on November 3, 2014

In Hong Kong, she was said to be a regular fixture at the many bars and pubs that line the city's notorious Red Light District.  

Seneng was said to be a regular fixture at the many bars and pubs that line the Red Light District (pictured) in Wan Chai

Seneng is said to have sent a text to a friend complaining of a 'really bad' smell inside Jutting's flat at 3.25am.

At 3.45am, police found her bleeding to death in the high rise apartment, with her throat slashed and knife wounds to her buttocks.

During a forensic examination of the flat eight hours later, police officers noticed two feet protruding from a suitcase on the balcony. 

Inside was the 'almost decapitated', decomposing body of Sumarti Ningsih, which had been there for five days.

With her tourist visa for Hong Kong about to expire she had a ticket to fly home the very next day, her heartbroken father Ahmed  told the Indonesian Tribune Kaltim.

She was last seen on October 26 near Lockhart Road in Wan Chai, where bar fronts are still flooded with scantily clad women from Indonesia and the Philippines.

Sumarti is believed to have married young and worked as a nanny in the tiny village of Gandrungmangu, central Java, but barely scratched together enough money to eat, Time reported.

In 2010 - at the age of 19 - she followed the path of many uneducated women in her village, and went abroad to earn money for her family. She left behind her parents, younger brother and then-one-month-old son Mohammad.

She came home when her domestic worker's visa ran out in 2013 and enrolled in a DJ school in Yogyakarta, around 130 miles away.

Her mother said she loved coming home and would spend hours in the kitchen, cooking and baking traditional Indonesian desserts for the family, BBC reported.

In May that year, she travelled back to Hong Kong on a three-month tourist visa, forcing her to work illegally.

Sumarti Ningish was last seen on October 26 2014 near Lockhart Road in Wan Chai, where the bar fronts are still flooded with women from Indonesia and the Philippines

She was forced to turned to prostitution but her family believed she had found cash-in-hand work as a waitress.

Her visit to Indonesia in July 2014 for the Muslim holiday of Eid was the last time her family would see her alive. 

Jutting's trial has since heard how the depraved banker forced Sumarti to lick the dirty toilet bowl and then whispered 'I love you' before cutting her throat.

She had had the chance to escape when he left the house to buy more cocaine and alcohol but she was too frightened to leave, the court heard.  

But giving evidence for the prosecution, psychiatrist Dr Oliver Chan said Jutting was aware of what he was doing when he killed the two women.  

Jutting had made numerous videos where he talked about how he was going to torture his second victim with a blowtorch and a sex toy wrapped in sandpaper.

He has admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility but denied murder.

Amidst all the gruesome detail of the case, the lives of these two young women trying to support their families have been almost entirely forgotten.