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Porn star took zip wire Brighton day trip with elderly gay couple before killing one of them on camera during sex then battering the other with a hammer, court hears

Porn star took zip wire Brighton day trip with elderly gay couple before killing one of them on camera during sex then battering the other with a hammer, court hears

Daily Mail​2 days ago
A porn star took a zip wire day trip to Brighton with an elderly gay man he later killed while filming a sex act, a court heard.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is accused of slaughtering Albert Alfonso, 62, on camera after killing Mr Alfonso's partner Paul Longworth, 71, with a hammer.
Mosquera allegedly wheeled the couple's dismembered heads in a suitcase before putting them into a chest freezer.
Other parts of their bodies were found in two suitcases on Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge on July 10 last year.
Mosquera, a Colombian national, had been staying at the couple's home on Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, west London.
He had met Mr Alfonso online where the Columbian used the names 'iamblackmaster and 'mrd-k20cm', the court heard.
He came to the UK to participate in sex acts and he dominated and degraded Mr Alfonso which the older man made films of that he later posted online.
Mosquera denies murdering retired handyman Mr Longworth, Woolwich Crown Court heard. He also denies murdering Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor, but admits manslaughter.
Jurors were shown CCTV footage of Mr Alfonso arriving at Heathrow airport on June 9 2024 to pick up Mosquera who had arrived from Columbia.
PC Nick Swire of the Metropolitan Police told the court he looked for CCTV footage around Scotts Road and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Footage from a camera opposite Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth's first floor flat in Scotts Road showed Mr Alfonso and Mosqeura leaving the flat on June 29.
They went on a day trip to Brighton together that day.
Jurors were shown a video of Mosquera on a zip wire on Brighton beach.
The video, accompanied by jaunty music, was filmed by the zip wire company.
It showed Mosquera going down the zip wire wearing blue shorts, a black t-shirt and a yellow helmet starting on a high raised platform before travelling down to the beach.
Mr Alfonso rented out the car parking space allocated to the flat in the communal car park near the block of flats and would regularly go and check on the space, the court heard.
On June 30, Mosquera was caught on CCTV leaving the flat along with Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth.
Mosquera was regularly spotted leaving the flat with Mr Alfonso, sometimes accompanied by Mr Longworth, the court heard.
PC Swire said Mosquera had a key for the flat and could let himself in and out.
On July 8, the day the killings took place, Mr Alfonso was seen leaving the flat at 9.14am on his bike to cycle to the gym he worked at in West Acton.
At 10.25am CCTV caught Mr Longworth through one of the flat windows resting his arms on the windowsill.
Mr Longworth was then seen again on CCTV at 11.16am leaning out of the window talking to a neighbour.
This was the last time Mr Longworth was ever seen on CCTV. It's alleged he was battered to death by Mosquera - before the Colombian went on to kill his partner, Mr Alfonso.
At 1.01pm a man DS Swire said was Mosquera was seen opening the curtains and windows, before opening them again 30 minutes later.
Mr Alfonso was seen returning to the flat on his bike at 2.11pm.
He was later seen in the flat having changed into his dressing gown.
Earlier in the court case, jurors were shown the horrifying footage of Mr Alfonso being stabbed to death during sex.
Mosquera was allegedly filmed dancing and singing in jubilation within seconds of slitting the throat of Mr Alfonso during a sex game caught on camera on July 8, 2024.
Hours earlier, the 35-year-old allegedly battered Mr Alfonso's partner Mr Longworth to death with a hammer in order to steal from the London couple, whom he had met online.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, said: 'According to their neighbours, they were a friendly couple who seemed happy together and to be genuinely fond of one another. None of them noticed any conflict within their relationship.
'However, Mr Alfonso liked extreme sex, which he videoed and posted online on specialist websites.'
A witness using the pseudonym James Smith had known Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth for about 18 years and, by the time of their deaths, considered them to be close friends.
Ms Heer said: 'He regularly engaged in acts of sexual domination with Mr Alfonso, for which he was paid. Some of those encounters were also posted online.
'They involved Mr Smith degrading Albert Alfonso by urinating, defecating and vomiting on him.
'Over the years, the relationship between Mr Smith and Alfonso ebbed and flowed and there were significant periods of time when they were not in contact with one another.
'Mr Smith's description of their early relationship is undoubtedly troubling...He recalls as a young man getting drunk with Alfonso only to be told in the morning that they had had sex and that Alfonso had filmed it.
'Alfonso promised not to show anyone else if Mr Smith agreed to do him sexual favours. Thinking that he was to blame and knowing that Alfonso had the video, Mr Smith decided he may as well make some money out of the situation, and he agreed.
'But he told Alfonso he was not into the sex. Alfonso told him about domination and Smith agreed to degrade Alfonso in the way I have described. To use Smith's own words, it was not a good start.
'That is something of an understatement but over time both Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso became, in his description, like family to him and they would spend time together doing other things, although his sexual encounters with Alfonso were always something he kept to himself and kept extremely private.'
Prosecutor Heer added: 'At about 11.30pm on the night of the 10 July 2024 Douglas Cunningham was cycling home across the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol when he saw the defendant, Yostin Mosquera, standing next to a large red suitcase.
'Thinking he was a lost tourist, Mr Cunningham stopped to see if he was okay.
'A few metres away from where the defendant was standing, on the bridge approach, there was another suitcase, a large silver trunk.
'The defendant told Mr Cunningham that he was from Colombia and that the suitcase he was standing with contained car parts. That was a lie.
'In fact, the suitcases contained the decapitated and dismembered bodies of Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso, which the defendant had taken to Bristol from their home in London where they had been killed two days before.
'Their decapitated heads would be found by the police in a chest freezer at their flat at 9 Scotts Road in Shepherds Bush.
'Paul Longworth had been attacked with a hammer to the back of his head, suffering repeated blows, such that his skull was shattered.
'Albert Alfonso had been repeatedly stabbed, suffering multiple wounds to his torso and to his face and to his neck. His throat had been cut.'
Mr Longworth was Irish and Mr Alfonso was originally from France but had obtained British citizenship.
The trial continues.
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