A man has been found guilty of murdering two men in London whom he decapitated and dismembered before taking their body parts in two suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was convicted at Woolwich crown court of the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on 8 July last year in the flat the civil partners shared in Scotts Road in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.
Mosquera repeatedly stabbed Alfonso, 62, who sustained injuries to his torso, face and neck, while Longworth, 71, was attacked with a hammer to the back of his head and his “skull shattered”, the court heard.
Two days later, at about 11.30pm, Mosquera travelled to Bristol in an attempt to dispose of some of the body parts, which were in two suitcases, by throwing them from Clifton Suspension Bridge, the jury was told.
The police tracked the victims to the address on one of the suitcases and found Alfonso and Longworth’s severed heads in a chest freezer in their flat.
Mosquera admitted the manslaughter of Alfonso by reason of loss of control but denied two charges of murder and alleged Alfonso had killed Longworth. It took a jury five hours and three minutes to unanimously find Mosquera guilty.
The judge, Mr Justice Bennathan KC, said he would sentence Mosquera on 24 October. He said: “I am not going to pass sentence on you today although the only one I can pass on you is one of life imprisonment. I am going to order a psychiatric report on you. It is in your interests to cooperate with the psychiatrist so that I can decide the minimum term you are going to serve.”
Mosquera, who had been staying with the couple, froze some of their remains and brought the rest to Bristol, the court heard.
Alfonso enjoyed “extreme sex” and Mosquera, a Colombian national he had met online years earlier, was part of that world, jurors heard. Alfonso was stabbed to death during a filmed sex session.
Mosquera’s plan was to hurl the suitcases over the bridge to dispose of the remains after the “calculated” and “premeditated” killings, the prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, said. But he was witnessed attempting the disposal late on 10 July 2024 shortly after pubs were emptying following England’s football victory over the Netherlands in the Euros semi-final.
Mosquera abandoned the suitcases, triggering a manhunt that led to his eventual arrest outside Bristol Temple Meads railway station on 13 July last year.
