A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years after murdering two men before dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.
Yostin Andres Mosquera killed 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.
Mosquera, who was staying with the couple, “decapitated and dismembered” them, froze parts of their remains and took the rest to the Bristol landmark.
The 35-year-old was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court today.
Yostin Andres Mosquera (left) had been staying with the couple prior to carrying out their murders
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A jury at Woolwich Crown Court unanimously convicted Mosquera of both murders earlier this year.
Sentencing him for the murders, Mr Justice Bennathan told the defendant: “Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso were a settled, affectionate couple.
“It was their tragedy that you, Yostin Mosquera, came into their lives.
“I now have to sentence you for these premeditated and thoroughly wicked crimes.”
Mosquera pleaded guilty at the same court earlier today to three counts of possessing child pornography.
He admitted possession of 1,500 category A images, 750 category B images, and 4,000 category C images.
Mosquera was sentenced to 16 months for these offences which will run concurrently to his sentence for the murders.
Mr Justice Bennathan said: “After you were arrested your laptop and other devices were seized.
“They were examined and in it were found at least 1,500 category A indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs, some of them moving images of children.
Yostin Andres Mosquera has been jailed for life for the murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth | PA“They were very young children being subjected to a variety of sexual abuse really of horrifying detail and nature.”
Mosquera repeatedly stabbed Mr Alfonso, who suffered injuries to his torso, face and neck.
Mr Longworth was attacked with a hammer on the back of his head and his skull was shattered.
Mr Alfonso enjoyed extreme sex and Moscquera, a Colombian national he met online years earlier, was part of that world.
Mr Alfonso was stabbed during a filmed session, and footage played in court showed Mosquera asking “do you like it”, and singing and dancing after the attack.
Footage showed Moscquera singing and dancing after the attack
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Seconds later he used a computer to try to steal from his victims’ bank accounts.
Mr Justice Bennathan said he was “sure” Mosquera hoped to sell the couple’s flat after killing them.
He described Mr Alfonso as “a hardworking man who had shown (Mosquera) kindness and generosity” and Mr Longworth as a “harmless, amiable person who had done [the defendant] no wrong”.
Computer searches for the phrase “where on the head is a knock fatal?” were made on the day the couple were killed, and the defendant made repeated searches to find a freezer in the lead-up to the attacks.
Mosquera ‘decapitated and dismembered’ the couple and froze parts of their remains
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On July 10, Mosquera was driven to Bristol and told a cyclist who spotted him on the bridge with a large red suitcase and a silver trunk that they contained car parts.
Bridge staff noticed something appeared to be leaking from the red suitcase which Mosquera told them was oil.
When they shone their torches on the suitcases, he fled.
“I am sure that your aim was to throw the cases full of body parts off the bridge in an attempt to dispose of them,” Mr Justice Bennathan said.
Mosquera admitted killing Mr Alfonso but claimed it was manslaughter by reason of loss of control.
The pair were killed last year at their flat in Scotts Road, Shepherd’s Bush, west London
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He pleaded not guilty to murdering both men and claimed Mr Alfonso killed Mr Longworth, telling the jury he believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Mr Alfonso.
He said he felt intimidated and that threats had been made to his family in Colombia.
The judge referenced a psychiatric report which concluded Mosquera has “no diagnosed mental state” that would mitigate his crimes.
The report included an account of Mosquera witnessing the killing of other children when he was at school in a town in Colombia, which one doctor believed “may have shaped” the way he views violence.
“Although it is a slight finding expressed in cautious terms, it may be it provides some partial explanation for your callous and brutal conduct in killing two harmless older men,” he said.
The judge decided not to impose a whole-life order, partly because of Mosquera’s lack of previous convictions, and the fact that he “may have been brutalised” as a child by witnessing the murder of other children.
