A convicted double murderer has been jailed for “horrifying” indecent images ahead of his sentencing for killing a couple and dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge
A convicted double murderer has been jailed for 16 months for possessing “horrifying” indecent images and videos of children before his sentencing for killing a couple 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 to the Bristol landmark.
A jury at Woolwich Crown Court unanimously found Mosquera guilty of both murders earlier this year, and he was due to be sentenced for the killings at the same court on Friday. Three new charges were put to him before the expected sentencing, and he pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.
Mr Justice Bennathan told the court that “unlawful child porn” was found on Mosquera’s laptop. He jailed the defendant, who sat in the dock assisted by a Spanish interpreter, for 16 months, telling him: “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. 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 Mosquera’s sentence for the murders of Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth.
Mosquera 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?” and also singing and dancing after the attack.
Seconds later he went on a computer to try to steal from his victims’ bank accounts.
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, 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.
Computer searches for the phrase “where on the head is a knock fatal?” were made on the day the couple were killed, and the jury was told the defendant made repeated searches to find a freezer in the lead up to the attacks.
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.
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