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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
The house of horrors where killer butchered couple he befriended online then decapitated and stored their remains in freezer...as neighbour reveals 'chilling' moment he came face to face with killer
Grim photos show the house of horrors where a Colombian porn actor murdered an older couple he was staying with before chopping up their bodies and dumping them on Clifton Suspension Bridge. Civil partners Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, welcomed 35-year-old Yostin Mosquera into their home in Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, west London. Tragically, their flat would be transformed into a sinister murder scene as Mosquera hatched a twisted plot to kill both men and desperately cover his tracks on July 8 last year. First, he bludgeoned Mr Longworth to death with a hammer, inflicting blow after blow on the same day he had searched ''where on the head is a knock fatal?' and 'hammer killer'. Chilling photos released by the Met Police show the hammer he used at the scene, as well as the bloodied divan bed where Mosquera hid Mr Longworth's body so that Mr Alfonso - who was at work - would be none the wiser when he returned home. Hours later, Mosquera then stabbed Mr Alfonso to death, knifing him in the torso, face and neck during a recorded sex session at the Scotts Road flat. The jury at Woolwich Crown Court was shown the distressing footage, where Mosquera repeatedly asked his victim 'Do you like it?'. And in a final insult to his victim, the naked murderer danced and sung while his victim bled out on the floor. Mosquera, who was this week convicted of both murders, then brutally decapitated and dismembered the two men, leaving their heads in a chest freezer he had purchased before travelling to Bristol to dump their bodies. Pictures from inside the couple's flat shows the freezer dumped in the middle of the corridor, next to a mirror with a floral design. The grisly deaths were first discovered when the suitcases were found on the iconic bridge at 11.30pm on July 10 last year. One of the suitcases had a tag on it linking them back to an address on Scotts Road where police found the heads in the freezer. It's been more than a year since the couple were murdered in their west London flat. But today, the first floor flat - a stone's throw from the bustling Shepherd's Bush Market - remains virtually untouched with a wilting cactus sat on the windowsill the only sign that someone lived there. Neighbours on the quiet street, where homes sell for nearly half a million pounds, revealed that no one has moved in to the house since as they recalled the 'brutal killing on their doorstep'. Some recalled coming face to face with the would-be murderer, while others were left rocked by the manner of the killings in such a quiet, friendly hub of west London. One neighbour told MailOnline: 'I was really shocked. I used to see Paul all the time. I seen him (Mosquera) once. If I'm being honest I got the shivers. Something in me said I wouldn't like to upset him. 'I picked up something straight away. He stopped and opened the gate for me, let me through. I never seen him before that but I couldn't stop staring. I got the shivers. 'I was shocked when it came out in the papers, I was numb for two hours. It's awful.' The man, who did not want to be named, said he was left feeling 'angry and shocked' that he lived so close to the scene of the double murder. He also questioned Mr Alfonso's desire for 'extreme sex' and pornography, adding: 'You don't know what sort of people it's going to attract. In the end he attracted a murderer from online.' The neighbour, referencing the fact that Mr Alfonso would have sex with other men, added: 'No wonder Paul was always at the pub. I used to see him and the shops and He used to ask me to come for a drink. He'd go at lunchtime.' Mr Longworth would regularly go to The Shepherd & Flock, an Irish pub on the High Street, just a few minutes from his home. Neighbours said that Mr Longworth used to regularly drink at the Shepherd and Flock - a stone's throw from his flat Another neighbour said it is 'such a community' and that 'all the neighbours chat', but they added: 'It's not very nice what he [Mr Alfonso] had in his bedroom. But I guess everyone has skeletons in their closet.' A friend, who like Mr Longworth was Irish, told MailOnline: 'They were really friendly, they were a very happy couple. I knew Paul more so than Albert. 'The last time I saw Paul was probably two weeks beforehand. He'd recently retired. He was planning holidays and things like that. He seemed his normal self. 'I had only just come home from Ireland the day they announced it on the news. I'd seen the police presence and assumed it was a burglary or something. 'It hadn't clicked until they said about the suitcases in Bristol were linked to our street that's when it dawned on me. It was shocking. It's one of those things you expect to see on the news, you never expect it to be on your doorstep. It's awful. 'They were brutally killed. It puts me on edge knowing it happened there. It must be ten times worse for the people who live next to him or above him. The friend, who believes the house has been left empty since, added: 'I'd imagine it would be horrible to move in there. I presume the flat has been cleaned but I don't know.' Neighbours say the 'friendly' community was rocked by the double murder, with one saying: 'I walk through here so many times and I've never ever felt day and night unsafe. I was horrified when I heard about it.' A worker at the nearby care home, just down the road from the flat, said: 'It was scary at the time. It's something you see on the news or in a move not in the place you work.' As far as neighbours are aware, no one has moved in to the house. There are rumours one of the victims' relatives has asked for the keys but there is no sign of anyone living there today. Shuddering, another neighbour said: 'I wouldn't want to live in there. It's a friendly community - everyone was obviously shocked. You don't expect this. ' Mosquera, a Colombian national, met Mr Alfonso online through webcam sex websites and used the names 'iamblackmaster and 'mrd—k20cm'. The court heard Mosquera visited the couple in London in October 2023 and that they travelled to Colombia in March 2024. He returned to England last June on the promise of English lessons and financial support from Mr Alfonso, whom he had met years earlier on porn websites. The court heard how he also participated in sex acts and dominated and degraded Mr Alfonso who filmed it and posted the footage online. He was in a paid sexual relationship with Mr Alfonso. Prosecutors told the trial how Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor at Mode Gym in Acton, and Mr Longworth, a retired handyman, were in a happy long-term relationship when they were barbarically murdered by Mosquera. Mr Longworth is believed to have been killed by multiple blows to the head with a hammer between 12.30pm and 1pm on July 8 last year when Mosquera was seen closing curtains to a first floor window on CCTV. Mosquera shattered Mr Longworth's skull before hiding his body in a divan bed, the court heard. He later cut his corpse up with a power tool and knife and stuffed it in a suitcase, the trial heard. Later that day, Mr Alfonso was stabbed to death after he and Mosquera were recording themselves having sex. Jurors were shown the horror footage of Mr Alfonso being killed on camera. Mr Alfonso was in a 'submissive' role and referred to Mosquera as 'master' during the recorded session. 'What is striking, when one considers the footage, is just how calm and in control the defendant remains throughout', prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, told the trial. On the day that the two men were killed Mosquera googled 'Where on the head is a knock fatal?' and 'How long before a corpse starts to decompose?' 'The post mortem examination of his body revealed that he had suffered severe blunt force trauma to the head which caused his death', said Ms Heer. She explained that there were injuries on his hand, which suggested that he had tried to defend himself. 'When the flat was later searched, a hammer was found lying on the floor in the hallway. It was found to be stained with Paul Longworth's blood', she said. Earlier in his evidence, Mosquera claimed Mr Alfonso cut up Mr Longworth's body after killing him. He said he stabbed Mr Alfonso because he was 'afraid that he would do the same to me that he had done to Paul'. Mosquera said after seeing Mr Longworth's dismembered body, he decided to do the same to Mr Alfonso's corpse. 'Yes I saw Paul's body and I cut Albert's. I don't know the exact moment but I cut it having seen Paul's body'. The trial heard how Mosquera was interrupted by a man while he was attempting to dispose of the suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge. Prosecutor Ms Heer, KC, said: '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.' The trial heard how Mosquera was visiting Mr Alfonso at the time of the killings, having returned to the UK to stay with the couple on June 9 2024. On June 29 2024, Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth took Mosquera to Brighton for the day, with photos showing them at Brighton pier, drinking beer and going on a zip wire. They also engaged in sex sessions along with another man, known by pseudonym James Smith in the trial. But on July 8 last year, Mosquera hatched his plan to kill Mr Longworth and Mr Alfonso before attempting to cover up their deaths. Mosquera had denied both murders and sought to blame Mr Alfonso for killing Mr Longworth. But the prosecution's case was that Mr Alfonso did not know and that he was out of the flat at work at the time Mr Longworth was killed and that Mosquera hid the body before he returned. The court heard that Mosquera had also got hold of Mr Alfonso's financial information, copying over spreadsheets containing his bank details relating to Barclays, Halifax, Natwest, Moneygram and Paypal on June 27. Prosecutors told the court this was to 'steal' money from Mr Alfonso. On July 8 last year, the day of the murders, Mosquera also looked up the value of the Scotts Road flat in a bid to 'find out what they [the couple] were worth'. Mosquera claimed during the trial that he feared for his own life and believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Mr Alfonso. He also said he was 'raped every day' by Mr Alfonso, telling jurors it made him feel 'humiliated, sad and trapped', but never angry. But prosecutor Ms Heer KC reminded the court that his 'detailed' defence statement produced for trial made no mention of the alleged rape. The case was put to a retrial after incorrect evidence was placed before the jury. Mr Justice Bennathan told Mosquera, aided in the dock by an interpreter: 'I am not going to pass sentence on you today. The only sentence I can pass is one of life imprisonment.' The judge ordered psychiatric reports and adjourned sentence until 24 October. Mr Justice Bennathan also thanked the jurors who had to view the horrific footage repeatedly throughout trial.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Daily Mail
Lead detective on suitcase killer case reveals how TWO mistakes led to warped murderer being caught
Puffing with exertion as he dragged his two victims' bodies down the street in a suitcase, Yostin Mosquera believed he had carried out the perfect murders. The Colombian sadist sex worker was only rumbled on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol when a passing cyclist saw his luggage was almost bursting open with blood leaking from the seams. Mosquera planned to throw the remains of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, into the gorge below Brunel's masterpiece. But MailOnline can reveal that the police officer leading the investigation in the West Country has set out how he believes he could have 'got away with it'. Det Insp Neil Meade has said that had Mosquera just killed the men and then booked a flight back to Colombia - he would probably be a free man today. 'He's killed two people in a premises. They are the only two people who live in the address, so nobody else is going to come and find them', he said. 'He didn't need to dismember them, he didn't need to take them to Bristol. 'If on July 11 he had booked himself a ticket back to Colombia I am confident he could have committed those murders and in inverted commas, got away with it'. 'But he did what he did.' Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, faces a life sentence after he was convicted of murdering civil partners Paul Longworth, 71, and Albert Alfonso, 62, at their flat in Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, west London, on July 8 last year. He had dismembered the men, stolen Albert's money and then travelled 115 miles to Bristol to dispose of their bodies in the back of a rented van. The corpses had been chopped up after he had stored them in a chest freezer he bought on Facebook Marketplace and had it delivered to the murder scene. He might have got away with the killings, but for the chance encounter with a passing cyclist on the 160-year-old Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, who confronted him and asked what the red liquid oozing from the suitcase was. It was blood. But Mosquera said it was oil from car parts but the cyclist, who spoke Spanish, persisted and asked if someone could look inside. The killer then fled but was found and arrested two hours later outside Bristol Temple Meads Station. Back on the bridge, police officers opened up the suitcase and found two torsos - dismembered and decapitated. 'Those cops on the bridge that night - not in a million years did they expect to see what they found,' said Det Insp Meade, the senior investigating officer in the case for Avon and Somerset Police's major crime team told the BBC. 'Opening those suitcases had a massive impact on those people'. Det Insp Meade went on: 'My reaction was "this is big". 'At the time we knew that we had bodies that had been cut up. That's really rare – that's really rare in Avon and Somerset, that's really rare nationally'. A luggage tag led police to Shepherd's Bush in London where Scotland Yard officers found blood in every room and the chest freezer containing the men's heads. They also found that the killings were caught on four cameras used to film extreme sex games. The footage also showed Mosquera dancing Det Ch Insp Ollie Stride, from the Metropolitan Police, said: 'I remember I was sat in my office when one of the officers came in... he was white as a sheet. 'At that point it became quite obvious that it was going to be quite a traumatic thing to watch... it absolutely proved to be one of the most harrowing videos I've watched in my career. 'One moment they're engaging in sexual activity together and the next moment Yostin is stabbing him and murdering him right in front of our eyes'. Det Ch Insp Ollie Stride said was 'revelling' and "celebrating" Albert's murder on film. 'He's dropped Albert on the floor and the next thing he does is dance and sing', he said. In a country where more than half of crimes go unreported due to fears about corruption, police inaction and reprisals, it is perhaps unsurprising that there is little documented about Mosquera's murky background. By day, Mosquera claimed that he worked in IT in an office in Medellin, Colombia, where he lived with his wife and child. But he spent his nights doing 'modelling', earning extra cash as a 'performer' on a pornography website where he performed various sexual acts under the name 'I am black master' and 'Mr d*** 20cm'. Albert Alfonso first came across the tall muscular Colombian more than 10 years ago on a specialist website where he sold videos of himself performing sex acts involving defecation, urination and vomiting in return for payments between £20-£80. The 62-year-old swimming instructor had what Prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, described as a 'predilection for extreme sex, which he videoed and posted online on specialist websites.' When Mr Alfonso became a regular customer, Mosquera worked hard to befriend him and his 71-year-old handyman partner, who did not engage in the sordid sessions. In October 2023, the couple invited Mosquera to Britain where the trio enjoyed sightseeing trips around London, posing for pictures at Madame Tussauds, trips on an open top bus and a river boat. When Mr Alfonso paid for everything, Mosquera began to formulate a plan. On his return to Colombia, he filmed a provocative video, entitled 'For me, slave Albert' in which he appeared dressed as Father Christmas. A short time later he invited the couple to holiday in Colombia in March 2024. Photographs on social media show the two greying men with their arms around the laughing younger man on speed boat trips, swigging beers and sheltering from the intense heat under a parasol. But behind the sunshine snaps, Mosquera was planning something darker. In June last year he was invited to stay again in the couple's home in Shepherd's Bush, this time with Mr Alfonso paying for a month-long English course, gym membership, and trips to Brighton where Mosquera was seen grinning drinking beer and going on a zip-wire. Even before he had landed in Heathrow, Mosquera had started researching the value of the victims' home. In the days that followed, he downloaded Mr Alfonso's bank details, passwords and started searching on Facebook Marketplace for a chest freezer and an 'industrial blender'. Other internet searches included 'serial killers of London', 'Jack the Ripper film' and he started looking for properties for sale in his home city. On the morning July 8 after Mr Alfonso went to work, Mosquera pounced on his elderly partner shattering his skull with nine hammer blows to the head. He bundled his body into a divan storage space under the couple's bed before going online to arrange for his flight home. When Mr Alfonso came home at 7.45pm, a masked Mosquera led him to the bedroom to make a sex tape. Jurors were shown graphic images from the video showing Mosquera approaching Mr Alfonso with a knife as the victim knelt naked on the floor in a submissive position. Mosquera, who was wearing a number of strap-on prosthetic penises, plunged a knife into Mr Alfonso's neck, stabbing him 13 times asking, 'Do you like it?'. During a prolonged struggle the two naked bloodied men fought, knocking over the web cam before Mosquera forced the victim onto the bed and slit his throat. The prosecutor said: 'What is striking, when one considers the footage, is just how calm and in control the defendant remains throughout. 'Indeed, so unconcerned does he appear by what he has just done that, as Mr Alfonso lies on the floor dying, the defendant starts singing and breaks into a dance before making his way directly to Mr Alfonso's desktop computer, which he then begins to use, and to access Mr Alfonso's finances.' As Mr Alfonso lay dying a few feet away from his hidden dead partner, Mosquera attempted to get into the victim's bank and Paypal account. Ms Heer described the chilling look on Mosquera's face: 'It is not shock, it is not horror, it is not concern for anything that is happening. 'It is elation, it is behaviour unperturbed by what has happened.' 'His actions were cold and calculated. He knew he had two bodies to dispose of. 'He continued to cover his tracks all the way to Bristol.' Over the next two days, Mosquera chopped up their remains with a saw, placing their heads in a chest freezer and body parts in suitcases before ordering an unsuspecting man with a van to take him to Bristol. After withdrawing hundreds of pounds from the victims' accounts, Mosquera sent messages from Mr Alfonso's phone to his boss claiming the victim was flying to Costa Rica for a family emergency. CCTV released after Mosquera was convicted offers the clearest timeline yet of his calculated plot to cover up the double murder before he was arrested outside Bristol Temple Meads station following a police manhunt. The brutal killing of Mr Alfonso was captured on a camera which had been set up in his bedroom to record a sex session with Mosquera. With the camera still rolling, it also showed the killer's twisted reaction to his second murder of the day. Casually walking across the bedroom, he rips off a face mask and gloves before he starts singing and dancing 'in elation' with his arms and hands visibly covered in blood. He then threw a towel over the body and made his way to his victim's computer, accessing his online banking and withdrawing cash with his card in the early hours of the morning. In a bid to cover his tracks, he cut off his victims' heads and hid them in a chest freezer at their flat where he had been staying. Two days later, Mosquera hired a man with a van who unwittingly drove him from London to Bristol so he could dump a suitcase and a trunk containing their chopped-up bodies on Clifton Suspension Bridge. But was spooked at the scene by the hero cyclist. When he was arrested he tried to blame the murders on his victims, claiming he had stabbed Mr Alfonso in self-defence after watching him kill his partner. Jurors were unconvinced, convicting him of the double murder on Monday after just five hours of deliberations. Mosquera showed no emotion as he was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court. He will be sentenced on October 24. The Daily Mail revealed last week that detectives believe the Jack the Ripper obsessed double murderer may have killed before. Police suspect that Mosquera may have been involved with the ruthless drug cartels which made his home city the murder capital of the world. But despite extensive inquiries in the UK, Colombia and elsewhere in the world, Scotland Yard have been unable to dig up anything from Mosquera's past to explain the brutally cold efficiency with which he carried out the murders which were captured on camera. Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride said: 'Our first thought was that this is not your first crime so we have done quite a lot of work looking at previous offending either here, or there or anywhere. We have not come across anything. 'We have got no evidence that he was involved in drug gangs but that was something that we thought about and looked at.' He revealed the level of violence used by Mosquera shocked detectives after he was caught on a web cam dancing and singing in jubilation within seconds of slitting the throat of Albert Alfonso. 'Watching the video it was quite brutal, clinical, we wondered whether there was any military training,' the officer added.
BBC News
6 days ago
- BBC News
'Murdered on camera - the video that shocked two juries'
Warning: This article contains details that some may find distressing, including violence and descriptions of a sexual nature. I have reported on numerous court cases covering some horrific murders and nothing could prepare me or the jury for what we would see and hear during the trial of Yostin Monday he was found guilty of the double murder of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, in their London a journalist working on the case I knew Mosquera was accused of killing and dismembering Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth - after all, I had been in Bristol when the grim discovery was made of their bodies in two suitcases at the Clifton Suspension had also found out Mosquera and Mr Alfonso originally met because they both made extreme sex videos which were posted online - so we knew this was going to be a distressing story to cover for all involved. Now that a verdict has been delivered, we can reveal that two trials were started into the at the Old Bailey started in May, but collapsed due to problems identifying accurate timings on some of the computer trial was moved to Woolwich Crown Court and started all over again at the end of June.I bring up the fact that there were two trials, because two trials means two both trials, the jury were asked to watch an extremely harrowing video of Mosquera and Mr Alfonso having sex before Mr Alfonso was brutally stabbed to death on 8 July last time the judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, warned them that they were about to watch a distressing bit of footage, filmed on four different cameras set up in Mr Alfonso's bedroom. But he said it was necessary to do so to help bring justice. You could see there was a knife which Mosquera had concealed on a table under some then began with an extreme sex act between Mosquera and Mr Alfonso very quickly turned into an unexpected was wearing a white swimming cap and a black leather eye mask when Mosquera attacked him with the knife. The eye mask depriving him of one of his was so tense in court. There was total was such a traumatic watch, it was first played without any next day, the sound was broadcast, which made it so much Mosquera was carrying out the murder, you could hear him ask Mr Alfonso if he "liked it".Then you hear Mr Alfonso take his last breath. Police from both forces investigating the case, Avon and Somerset Police and the Metropolitan Police, said they were profoundly affected by the officer at the Met said a colleague went "white as a sheet" after viewing it, and officers told me despite being used to watching many grim things, it was "by far one of the worst things they had ever seen in all their careers".But for a jury - made up of everyday people, picked entirely at random – they did not ask to be part of this trial, or choose a career path where they would be exposed to such graphic makes you wonder how they coped with seeing these the end of the day during the first trial, one jury member handed the judge a note saying they could not bear to watch it again and asked to be jury was now down from 12 to 11 people. Recoiled in his seat When the first trial collapsed my first thought was about that poor jury that had been made to sit through all that footage for the retrial, I was in a fortunate position that I did not have to watch the murder, instead I chose to watch the second what they were seeing, I was not surprised by their man physically lurched back in his seat, recoiling from what he was seeing, another woman wearing a scarf tightly wrapped it around her mouth as if trying to protect prosecution told the jurors they blurred out as much as they video was played to them three times in the first three days. I was covering the trial, along with Adam Crowther, tracking its twists and turns for the BBC Sounds podcast Bodies in the and Adam made different decisions on whether to watch the did not look later told me it was probably the most shocking thing he has ever, and would ever, see in his the cameras captured Mr Alfonso being murdered, his ex-partner and best friend, Mr Longworth, had already been placed in the base of a divan bed in a room next had been dead for hours after being fatally attacked with a hammer by Mosquera. 'Serious demand on jury' Through the trial we heard about Mr Alfonso's predilection for extreme included accounts of domination, degrading sex acts and a world of online videos that are made, posted online and bought and sold – many aspects of which would be seen as disturbing by had claimed it was Mr Alfonso who had killed Mr Longworth – and it was following this that he had feared for his own life and killed Mr Alfonso after a loss of of everyone we spoke to who knew Mr Alfonso, no-one described him as the jury would agree and it took them just over five hours to find Mosquera guilty of both to the jurors, Mr Justice Bennathan acknowledged the "serious demands" that had been placed on them "in this case more than most"."They were terrible, brutal events and to read about it is a dreadful thing, but to see it is really shocking," he are now eligible to six counselling sessions if they have had to sit through distressing even with help, they will likely never be able to unsee what they had to watch.
Times
22-07-2025
- Times
Colombian man who hid body parts in suitcases guilty of murder
A Colombian pornographic actor murdered two men in a 'ruthless' attack and was filmed singing and dancing after he stabbed one of them. Yostin Mosquera, 35, was staying with Albert Alfonso, 62, and his civil partner Paul Longworth, 71, when he plotted to drain their bank accounts and sell their flat in Shepherd's Bush, west London. He was found guilty of murdering both men by a jury at Woolwich crown court on Monday and now faces a life sentence. Mosquera, a Colombian citizen, flew to Britain to participate in sexual acts with Alfonso after the pair met via webcam sex websites in 2012. Mosquera battered Longworth, an Irish retired handyman, with a hammer while Alfonso was at work on July 8 last year and hid his body under a bed, prosecutors said. Later that evening Mosquera murdered Alfonso, a swimming instructor, while they were having sex. Harrowing footage of Mosquera inflicting fatal knife wounds on Alfonso, who clutched his neck as he tried to fight off his attacker, was played to the jury. At one point, Mosquera asked: 'Do you like it?' as the victim fought for his life. As Alfonso lay dying, Mosquera accessed his MoneyGram account and tried to transfer £4,000 to his personal account in Colombia. However the transaction was blocked so he withdrew the money from a cash machine. Deanna Heer KC, for the prosecution, said: 'His actions were planned, they were premeditated, and having killed them, the evidence demonstrates the defendant attempted to steal from them.' Mosquera later dragged two suitcases containing the couple's remains to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol where he planned to dump them. He was later arrested and police found Alfonso and Longworth's decapitated heads in a chest freezer at their 'heavily bloodstained' home. Mosquera told the court that he feared for his life and believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Alfonso. He admitted Alfonso's manslaughter due to loss of control but denied two counts of murder. He blamed Alfonso for Longworth's death. On Monday, jurors deliberated for five hours and three minutes before returning unanimous guilty verdicts following a retrial. Mr Justice Bennathan, the judge who presided over the trial, ordered a pre-sentence report and said Mosquera will learn his fate on October 24. He thanked the jury and told them: 'We put serious demands on jurors … In this case you have had to look at a very tough video. They were terrible brutal events and to read about it is a dreadful thing but to see it is really shocking. If you do want to seek help then speak to the court staff — above all, thank you.' Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride, who led the double murder investigation on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, said it was 'one of the most traumatic, harrowing murder investigations I've dealt with by virtue of that video'. He added: 'Having a video of the murder is, in many ways, an investigator's dream. It was really important for me and the investigation team that we were not complacent. We continued the meticulous investigation through all the evidence that we would have done if we hadn't had that video.' Detectives believe the killings were 'financially motivated' and said Mosquera had shown no remorse for his crimes. Jaswant Narwal, chief crown prosecutor at the CPS, said: 'The extensive evidence, painstakingly analysed by police and our team of homicide prosecutors, made sure that we could prove it was only Yostin Mosquera that was responsible — and further demonstrated that this brutal attack was planned, premeditated and ruthless.' During the trial, the court was told how Alfonso and Longworth had an 'unconventional relationship' but neighbours described them as a friendly couple who 'seemed happy together'. Longworth was dyslexic and 'relied on Alfonso', jurors were told. They entered a civil partnership 17 months before their deaths. Heer said that Alfonso engaged in 'extreme sex' with other men. Longworth was aware but had nothing to do with this part of his life. Mosquera made several trips to the UK and engaged in sexual acts with Alfonso 'in exchange for payment', the court heard. Alfonso and Longworth also visited Mosquera in his country. Heer said that Mosquera 'had other matters on his mind' when he stayed with the couple in June last year. He looked up the value of their home, browsed Facebook marketplace for a chest freezer, copied spreadsheets containing Alfonso's online banking passwords and searched for 'serial killers of London' and 'Jack the Ripper film'. Two days after the killings, on July 10, Mosquera was driven to Bristol with a silver trunk and red suitcase. At 10.30pm he was dropped off near the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the court was told. Two witnesses asked if he needed help. Mosquera gave his name as 'Juan' and he used Google Translate to say he needed to meet a client at the bridge to deliver 'mechanical parts and oil'. They offered him a lift but found the cases were 'too heavy and too large to fit' in the boot. A taxi was booked and CCTV captured Mosquera pulling the red case along the pavement near the bridge at 11.05pm. He was seen 'looking over the sidewall down to the River Avon Gorge below'. A cyclist spoke to Mosquera in Spanish and bridge staff 'noticed something was leaking from the suitcase'. The cyclist asked to open it but Mosquera refused. The cyclist 'managed to film [Mosquera] on his mobile telephone. Mosquera tried to knock the phone out of his hand before he ran off. He was arrested on July 13 last year and refused to answer questions. Mosquera's first trial at the Old Bailey collapsed in May this year after incorrect evidence relating to the timings of internet searches was put before the jury.
BBC News
22-07-2025
- BBC News
Extreme sex and bodies in suitcases - who were the men involved?
The murder of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth by Yostin Mosquera revealed a world of extreme sex, dark web videos and adult content creation. But how did the three men know each other - and why did Mosquera murder them? Warning: This article contains details that some may find distressing, including violence and descriptions of a sexual nature. Three men enjoying a speedboat ride at a luxury resort in Colombia - Albert Alfonso's selfie with Yostin Mosquera and Paul Longworth makes them look like the best of friends. But the reality was quite the smiles there were complex relationships based on extreme sex, domination and financial transactions, all existing alongside a loving and caring partnership. Four months after the photo was taken, Mosquera mercilessly killed both men in their London flat on 8 July 2024, before dismembering their bodies, and travelling more than 116 miles (186km) with them in a suitcase. He hired a man with a van to drive him to Bristol, who dropped him off close to the city's suspension bridge, where Mosquera planned to throw them off. Albert, 62, and Paul, 71, had previously been in a civil marriage and while they had split up, they remained close and continued to live described the men as without "huge family, friend circles", instead being "each other's everything, their rocks and their world".Albert was a swimming instructor and was training to be a lifeguard at Mode Club Gym in Acton, west grew up in Bidart, France, and trained at a hotel school in Biarritz before moving to the UK to manage was previously a general manager at 375 Kensington High Street - a luxury residential estate in west London with apartments and statements read to Woolwich Crown Court, former colleagues of Albert described him as "funny, authoritative and motivated". It was at this building that Albert met Paul, a handyman who had recently bonded over the fact they were both fostered and in February 2023 they entered a civil partnership, although Paul's friends told the BBC he "wasn't open about his sexuality" and referred to Albert as his was widely described by friends and neighbours as "extremely kind".Kevin Dore, 74, from Shepherd's Bush, used to drink with Paul and knew him for more than 20 years."He's a nice, warm, generous person," he said."Always polite. Always buy you a drink, sit down and have a chat."George Hutchison, who also used to drink with Paul, said: "He was just one of the boys. He was a very nice man, never did anybody any harm." Although Albert was said to have been private about his personal life, the trial revealed a world of extreme sex which he frequently paid for, participated in and shared videos of was a side of his life that Paul had nothing to do with, although he knew about it and seemed to accept a Colombian national, was also posting scores of videos of himself online performing extreme sex acts under various 35, he lived in Medellin, and had five brothers and one sister, who died a few years ago. He also has two and Mosquera started speaking over Skype from about 2012. By 2017, Albert started paying Mosquera for sexual videos, which reportedly became more extreme over time. They finally met in person in 2023 when Mosquera travelled to England for the first it seems Albert misjudged their sexual relationship. While it seemed Albert was in it for the sex, Mosquera was in it for the money. The court heard Albert had laid his whole life open to a man with whom his relationship was, in reality, transactional. Albert's bank statements show he received more than £17,500 between 2 September 2022 and 12 July 2024 from a company that operates an extreme pornography May 2022 and February 2024, Albert sent Mosquera a total of $7,735 across 72 payments - the equivalent of about £5, between January 2024 and 19 June 2024 Albert transferred £928 via MoneyGram, which provides international money transfer return, Mosquera posted porn across four websites, including more than 100 videos and images, online using had asked for sex shows and between 30 June 2022 and 12 June 2024 he earned $2,682.90. But Mosquera told the court he did not know Albert was sharing videos of him online until a few days before he murdered him - despite agreeing that he signed a consent form in 2023 allowing Albert to upload images of him online and for him to keep financial October 2023, Mosquera travelled to the UK and stayed in Albert's home. He told the court he was raped "every day" by Albert and did not take any enjoyment from the extreme sex acts, which he was paid to October 2023 Albert paid for Mosquera to visit him in the UK, staying at their London his stay, Mosquera visited Madame Tussauds, took a trip on an open top bus and went on a boat trip on the River in March 2024, Albert took Paul to Colombia where they stayed at Cartahenga - and Albert paid for Mosquera to come and meet Dore, one of Paul's drinking friends told the BBC they had warned him about travelling to the country."We said 'that's a dangerous place Paul, don't muck about over there'," Mr Dore said. In May that year Mosquera made another extreme video for Albert and within weeks he was back in the UK, staying with the pair - again at Albert's time Albert arranged a guest membership for Mosquera at his gym, set him up to join his work's five-a-side football team Whatsapp group, and enrolled him on a four-week English language three men also travelled to Brighton for a day trip, visiting the pier and where Mosquera was filmed on a in the days before Mosquera landed at Heathrow Airport and during his stay, he was accessing information about Albert and Paul's finances, searched for a chest freezer and industrial liquidiser as well as looking up deadly poisons and and Albert were killed on 8 July. Paul was repeatedly hit with a hammer, shattering his skull. His body was then hidden in the bottom of a divan bed, while Mosquera waited for Albert to come a recorded sex session, Mosquera stabbed Albert to death, after which he sang and danced around the then accessed Albert's computer in an attempt to send £4,000 to his bank account in Colombia, as well as making other financial withdrawals. When this failed, he went to a nearby cashpoint and withdrew hundreds of pounds from Albert's dismembered their bodies days later - placing their heads in the chest freezer and transporting other body parts in suitcases to unexpected and brutal killing of Albert and Paul shocked their Dore said the nature of the murders have broken his heart. Mosquera was found guilty of the double murders after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court and he will be sentenced in October. Additional reporting by Fiona Lamdin, Adam Crowther and Beth Cruse.
