A 35-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a West London couple before dumping their remains in suitcases near a bridge. Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, killed Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth, aged 62 and 71, at their flat in Shepherd’s Bush on July 8 last year.
The Old Bailey previously heard how Mosquera asked Mr Alfonso ‘Do you like it?’ as he repeatedly stabbed him in the neck, face, and torso during a filmed session. Hours beforehand, he had hammered Mr Longworth to death and hid him under a bed.
Mr Alfonso enjoyed “extreme sex” and Mosquera, a Colombian national whom he met online years earlier, was part of that world, jurors heard.
Mosquera then stored their heads in a chest freezer before taking the other remains in a pair of suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. Mosquera admitted killing Mr Alfonso but claimed it was manslaughter by reason of loss of control.
He pleaded not guilty to murdering both men and insisted Mr Alfonso killed Mr Longworth.
It took a jury five hours and three minutes to unanimously Mosquera find guilty. He had told the jury he feared for his own life and believed he was about to be killed when he stabbed Mr Alfonso.
The defendant claimed that he thought Mr Alfonso would do to him what he claims he had already done to Mr Longworth, he felt “intimidated” and threats had been made to his family in Colombia.
Mosquera’s actions after stabbing Mr Alfonso, including singing and dancing, could have been an outburst as he had been overwhelmed by all that had happened to him, his defence counsel suggested.
The judge, Mr Justice Bennathan KC, said he would sentence Mosquera on October 24. He said: “I am not going to pass sentence on you today although the only one I can pass on you is one of life imprisonment.
“I am going to order a psychiatric report on you. It is in your interests to cooperate with the psychiatrist so that I can decide the minimum term you are going to serve.”
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