Rurik Jutting, the British banker accused of murdering two women, has been found fit to stand trial after psychiatric tests. The trial was adjourned this morning for eight months to allow more than 200 items of evidence to be forensically tested.

Jutting, 29, had undergone two weeks of psychiatric evaluation. He has been in custody since November 1, when the bodies of Sumarti Ningsih, 25, and an unnamed woman were discovered in his upmarket flat on Johnston Road in Wan Chai.

Principal Magistrate Bina Chainrai told the prosecution that if the results of the forensic tests arrived earlier, the start date for the case could be brought forward.