A BRITISH banker who studied in Hampshire is due to undergo psychiatric tests to determine if he is fit to stand trial for the murders of two women.

Rurik Jutting appeared in court in Hong Kong today charged with murdering two Indonesian women.

The 29-year-old studied at Winchester College student for five years and is originally from Cobham, Surrey.

The judge adjourned proceedings for two weeks while the psychiatric assessments are carried out and the banker was remanded in custody.

A lawyer for Jutting, who did not speak during the hearing, said he had not yet agreed to take part in a police reconstruction at the crime scene but did not rule out giving consent in future.

Sumarti Ningsih, 23, was found dead in a suitcase at Cambridge-educated Jutting's apartment in Hong Kong’s colony's Wan Chai district last Saturday.

Police had been called to the property on Halloween night and first found 29-year-old Seneng Mujiasih with wounds to her throat and buttocks. She died a short time later.

Jutting moved to Hong Kong from London in July last year and is understood to have quit his highly-paid job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the days before the incident.