A British banker has been ruled mentally fit to stand trial for the murder of two Indonesian women, one of whom was discovered in a suitcase.

Rurik Jutting, originally from Cobham, Surrey, appeared at a short court hearing in Hong Kong after undergoing psychiatric tests.

A judge ruled the 29-year-old was fit to enter a plea - but the case will not be heard until July.

Prosecutors said the government lab needed 28 weeks to examine more than 200 items of evidence collected from the crime scene.

Jutting appeared in court unshaven and wearing a black T-shirt featuring the words "New York".

He spoke just once - to answer "I do" to a judge's question.

Jutting has yet to enter a plea and his lawyers said he did not object to the request for the lengthy adjournment.

He was arrested on 1 November after the bodies of Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 29, were discovered in his 31st-floor apartment in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district.

The two women had been stabbed and Ms Ningsih's body was discovered in a suitcase on the balcony.

According to court documents, she had died on 27 October, five days before she was discovered.

Both women had been working in the city's red light district, earning money for their families back in Indonesia.

Jutting, who studied at Cambridge, moved to Hong Kong last year.

He worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch - though it is thought he quit his job days before the alleged murders.

(Sky News)