A man who murdered two people and took their bodies in suitcases to Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 42 years.
Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of murders.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, from Colombia, killed Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in west London on 8 July last year, carrying out what the judge described as “premeditated and thoroughly wicked crimes”.
The 35-year-old was caught when members of the public noticed blood leaking from the cases. He ran away but was caught a few days later.
Mosquera had been flown to London by Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth, who were civil partners he had struck up a friendship with. Mosquera and Mr Alfonso also engaged in extreme sex at the couple’s Shepherd’s Bush flat.
Mr Longworth, 71, was hit over the head with a hammer and his body stuffed in a divan bed.
The same evening, during sex, Mosquera stabbed Mr Alfonso, 62, in the neck, asking him “Do you like it?” as he struggled and screamed.
The murder was caught on a bedroom camera, which also captured Mosquera singing and dancing as his victim lay dying.
He decapitated the bodies and put the heads in a freezer that he had delivered the next day.
The other remains were put in suitcases and Mosquera hired a van to take him to Bristol on 10 July, where prosecutors said he planned to throw the remains off the bridge.
When he arrived, people at a pub saw him struggling with the cases – which he said contained car parts – and offered to drive him over the bridge.
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They struggled to lift the cases into the car, joking “God, these are heavy, is there a body in there?’, so ordered the killer a taxi instead.
The trial was told Mosquera – who had been selling sexual images of himself online for years – was motivated by money. He repeatedly tried to find out the price of the couple’s flat and stole money from Mr Alfonso after murdering him.
The Colombian was found guilty of the murders in July.
Before being sentenced for the double murder, he was on Friday jailed for 16 months for possessing “horrifying” indecent images and videos of children.
Three new charges were put to him prior to the sentencing and he pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.
Mr Justice Bennathan told the court “unlawful child porn” was found on Mosquera’s laptop and as he jailed the defendant, he told him: “After you were arrested your laptop and other devices were seized.
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“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.
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“They were very young children being subjected to a variety of sexual abuse really of horrifying detail and nature.”
The judge said the jail term for those offences will run concurrent to the sentence for the murders of Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth.
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