A man has been sentenced to a minimum of 42 years in prison for murdering two men and dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, 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 in suitcases to Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, the prosecution said.
Sentencing Justice Bennathan jailed him for an additional 16 months for possessing ‘horrifying’ indecent images and videos of children.
Justice Bennathan told the court that ‘unlawful child porn’ was found on Mosquera’s laptop, adding: ‘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.’
Mosquera also possessed at least 750 category B images and no fewer than 4,000 category C images.
He repeatedly stabbed Mr Alfonso, who suffered injuries to his torso, face and neck, while Mr Longworth was attacked with a hammer on the back of his head, and his skull was shattered.
Mr Alfonso enjoyed extreme sex, and Mosquera, a Colombian national he met online years earlier, was part of that world.
Mr Alfonso was stabbed during a filmed session, with footage played in court showing Mosquera asking ‘Do you like it?’ while singing and dancing after the attack.
Seconds later, he went on a computer to try to steal from his victims’ bank accounts.
Jurors heard that Mosquera attempted to open a bank account using the Scotts Road address.
Immediately after the murders, he accessed a spreadsheet of financial passwords and tried to log in to the couple’s bank accounts. He unsuccessfully tried to send £4,000 to his account in Colombia.
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Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told the court Mosquera’s plan had been to throw the suitcases off the bridge to dispose of the remains after the ‘calculated’ and ‘premeditated’ killings.
He admitted killing Mr Alfonso but claimed it was manslaughter by reason of loss of control.
He pleaded not guilty to murdering both men and claimed Mr Alfonso killed Mr Longworth.
Mosquera told the jury he feared for his own life and believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Mr Alfonso.
Computer searches for the phrase ‘where on the head is a knock fatal’ were made on the day the couple were killed.
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. Mosquera, who does not speak English, made repeated computer searches to find a freezer in the build-up to the killings, the court heard.
Many of the searches were in Spanish, some used Google Translate, and were made while Mosquera was the only person in the house.
He asked questions about delivery options, and searches were made for a deep freezer, a chest freezer, a large indoor freezer and an outdoor freezer.
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