Man who dumped bodies in suitcases on bridge after murdering couple guilty

A man accused of killing a couple before decapitating them and dumping their bodies in a suitcase on Clifton Suspension Bridge has been found guilty.

Yostin Andres Mosquera was charged with the murders of civil partners Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in their flat in Scotts Road, Shepherd’s Bush, west London.

The court heard he had been staying with the couple before he “decapitated and dismembered” them, froze parts of their remains and brought the rest in suitcases to Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol before stealing from them.

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Woolwich Crown Court heard Mr Alfonso was repeatedly stabbed, suffering injuries to his torso, face and neck, while Mr Longworth was attacked with a hammer to the back of his head and his skull shattered, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court have heard.

During a retrial, jurors heard Mr Alfonso enjoyed “extreme sex” and Mosquera, a Colombian national who did not speak English and whom he met online years earlier, was part of that world, jurors heard.

Mr Alfonso was stabbed to death during a filmed session, with footage shown in court recording Mosquera singing and dancing in the aftermath of the attack.

Mosquera’s plan was to hurl the suitcases over the bridge to dispose of the remains after the “calculated” and “premeditated” killings, prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said.

Mosquera admits killing Mr Alfonso but claims it was manslaughter by reason of loss of control. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering both men and insists Mr Alfonso killed Mr Longworth.

He told the jury he feared for his own life and believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Mr Alfonso. The defendant claims that he thought Mr Alfonso would do to him what he claims he had already done to Mr Longworth, he felt “intimidated” and threats had been made to his family in Colombia.

Mosquera’s actions after stabbing Mr Alfonso, including singing and dancing, could have been an outburst as he had been overwhelmed by all that had happened to him, his defence counsel suggested.

The court previously heard that computer searches for the phrase “where on the head is a knock fatal?” were made on the day the two men died.

It was suggested that Mosquera made repeated computer searches to find a freezer in the build-up to the killings. Many of the searches were in Spanish, some used Google translate and were also made while Mosquera was the only person in the house, the jury heard.

He asked questions about delivery options and several searches were looking for a deep freezer, a chest freezer, a large indoor and outdoor freezer for sale.

In the days before the killings the phrase “hammer killer” was also tapped into the computer.

The court also heard that Mosquera had first come to the UK from Colombia in June 2024 on the promise of English lessons and financial support from Mr Alfonso, whom he had met years earlier through webcam sex websites.