an automated email reply from the Bank of America account of double murder suspect Rurik Jutting yesterday said he was out of the office "indefinitely" and reccommend contacting someone who's not "an insane psychopath".
Call to the work and mobile phones of Mr Jutting weren't answered yesterday outside of office hours, and Paul Scanlon, a spokesman for Bank of America in Hong Kong, declined to comment.
The full automated email response said: "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath. For escalation please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody [Last line only really worked if I had followed through]."
According to the UK Financial Services Register, Rurik George Caton Jutting joined Barclays Plc in London in 2008 and worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 2010 to October last year.
A spokeswoman for the Hong Kong police yesterday said they'd arrested a British man called George. She wouldn't confirm the man's full name.
Bank of America's Mr Scanlon said the second-biggest US leader previously had an employee named Rurik Jutting. The South China Morning Post said Jutting had recently resigned from the bank.
A spokesman for the UK foreign Office in London said that a British national had been arrested in Hong Kong and that it was providing consular asistance to the individual, without specifying a name.
Mr Jutting studied history and law at Cambridge University and was a member of its rowing club and secretary of the history society, the London-based Telegraph reported.
Hehad previously been a pupil at Winchester College, an independent boys' school in southern England, the newspaper said.BLOOMBERG