Man ‘dismembered’ couple and froze remains before dumping them off bridge

A man ‘decapitated and dismembered’ two men and left their heads in a freezer before dumping their remains, a court has heard.

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in the flat the two shared in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.

It’s alleged Mosquera repeatedly stabbed Mr Alfonso, before attacking Mr Longworth with a hammer to the head and neck.

At one point, the court was shown a video taken of the murder of Alfonso, after which Mosquera appeared to dance.

Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, told jurors at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday that the murder took place while Mosquera and Mr Alfonso were having sex, recorded on video.

Mosquera has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso, but denies both charges of murder, the jury was told.

Mrs Heer said he denies killing Mr Longworth at all; he blames Mr Alfonso for the murder of Mr Longworth.

Days after the alleged murders, a cyclist on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Brighton spotted Mosquera around 11.30 pm next to a large red suitcase.

The cyclist thought he was a tourist and stopped to ask if he was okay. He noticed a silver trunk a few metres away from Mosquera.

The defendant told the cyclist he was from Colombia and that the suitcases contained car parts.

Mrs Heer told the court: ‘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.’

Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth’s decapitated heads were found by police in a chest freezer in their flat, the court heard.

‘The prosecution case is that the defendant murdered both men, intending to kill them, and that his actions were planned, they were premeditated, and having killed them, the evidence demonstrates the defendant attempted to steal from them,’ she added.

Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor, and Mr Longworth, a retired handyman, had been living together before their death.

The prosecution added that Mr Alfonso ‘liked extreme sex’, which he would film and post online.

A close friend of the pair, who spoke to jurors under the name James Smith, had known them for 18 years and considered them close friends.

He regularly engaged in acts of sexual domination with Mr Alfonso for which he was paid, and some of the encounters were posted online, Ms Heer said.

Mosquera was visiting Mr Alfonso at the time of the killings, and Ms Heer described the defendant as a ‘pornographic performer’.

James Smith told the court he was invited to join a sex session between Mr Alfonso and Mosquera, who seemed ‘friendly’ at the time.

On July 8 last year, Mr Alfonso worked an early shift at the gym, and it was while he was out that the prosecution says the defendant killed Mr Longworth, the court heard.

Mr Alfonso was killed at about 10.15 pm in his own bedroom, the court heard.

Mosquero allegedly accessed Facebook Marketplace to search for a freezer, and he searched ‘where on the head is a knock fatal’ on Google and YouTube.

Footage showed the defendant ended the sexual encounter by ‘repeatedly stabbing’ Mr Alfonso and ‘cutting his throat’.

Mrs Heer said: What is striking, the prosecution says, when you watch the footage, is just how calm and in control the defendant remains throughout.

‘Indeed, so unconcerned does he appear by what he’s just done that as Mr Alfonso lies on the floor dead or dying, the defendant starts to sing to himself and break into a dance at one point.’

The defendant then started using Mr Alfonso’s computer, and examination of the computer shows the defendant looking at banking information relating to Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth, before trying to send £4,000 to his account in Colombia.

The prosecution said Mosquero then began to dismember the pair, before taking some remains to Bristol and freezing others.

Mosquero was arrested on July 13 at about 2.15 am after being found sitting on a bench outside Bristol Temple Meads railway station, the jury was told.

He said that he ‘lost self-control’ during the alleged murders, and is bidding to get his sentence reduced to manslaughter.

The trial continues.

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