Bodies in suitcases killer gets life after singing and dancing following double murder
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 42 years in jail.
A porn actor who murdered a couple before abandoning their body parts in a suitcase has discovered his fate after a judge had warned he may never be safe to set free.
Yostin Andres Mosquera has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 42 years in jail. The 35-year-old was filmed callously singing and dancing seconds after slitting the throat of Albert Alfonso, 62, during a sex game caught on camera.
As reported by the Mirror, he had also battered Mr Alfonso's 71-year-old civil partner Paul Longworth to death with a hammer just hours earlier and later attempted to steal from them.
Mosquera, who is a Colombian national, smiled after the sentence of 40 years and 264 days - which takes account of his time already served in custody - was delivered by a judge, via a translator, at Woolwich Crown Court. Prior to sentencing he also pleaded guilty to child porn charges.
His trial previously heard he had been staying at the couple's flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, when he killed them on July 8 last year. He then decapitated and dismembered them both, before putting their heads in a chest freezer and transporting the rest of their remains in suitcases to Bristol two days later.
Mosquera's plan was to hurl the suitcases over the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge shortly before midnight on July 10 in order to dispose of the body parts following the "calculated" and "premeditated" killings. But he fled when bridge staff noticed something appeared to be leaking from one of the suitcases he was carrying and shone their lights on him.
The killer, who was later arrested at Bristol Temple Meads railway station, told a passing cyclist who saw him on the bridge that the large red suitcase and a silver trunk he was carrying contained car parts.
The court previously heard Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor, enjoyed "extreme sex" and Mosquera, who he met online years earlier, was part of that world.
He suffered 22 stab wounds to his torso, face, neck and upper arms, including defence wounds, after attempting to fight for his life as he was repeatedly stabbed. Mr Longworth, a retired handyman, died of a fractured skull after being attacked to the back of his head.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC today told the court: "The defendant planned in advance to kill both of the victims in order to steal from them. Both of the murders involved the use of a weapon or weapons. A hammer in the case of Mr Longworth and a knife in the case of Mr Alfonso."
A pathologist was unable to say how many blows Mr Longworth had suffered to his head as a result of the hammer attack, which the court heard left his skull shattered. Speaking about the murder of Mr Alfonso, which was filmed, Ms Heer said: "The murder took place during sexual activity and he waited until the sexual activity had started before he did so."
Ms Heer said Mr Alfonso was "vulnerable and naked" at the time and added there was an element of trust between him and the killer. The court heard Mosquera had made repeated computer searches to find a freezer and attempted to access Mr Alfonso's bank and PayPal accounts. He also typed a number of chilling phrases, including "hammer killer", ''where on the head is a knock fatal?' and "How long before a corpse starts to decompose?" into the same device. And he looked up the value of the couple's flat in a bid to "find out what they [the couple] were worth".
Mosquera used a knife and a power tool to cut up the bodies. 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 insisted Mr Alfonso had killed Mr Longworth.
Prosecutor Ms Heer said on Friday that a medical report had found Mosquera "wasn't suffering from any mental health disorder" at the time of the killings. He was found guilty of both murders by a jury after the court heard Mosquera hid Mr Longworth's body in a divan bed so that Mr Alfonso would be none the wiser when he returned home from work.
The jury at Woolwich Crown Court was also shown distressing footage of Mosquera killing Mr Alfonso on camera before repeatedly asking him: "Do you like it?". And in a final insult to his victim, the naked murderer was then shown dancing and singing while his victim bled out on the floor.
The court heard Mosquera met Mr Alfonso online through webcam sex websites where he used the names "iamblackmaster" and "mrd—k20cm". He visited the couple in London in October 2023 and they travelled to Colombia in March 2024.
Mosquera then, last June, returned to the UK on the promise of English lessons and financial support from Mr Alfonso, who the court heard was in a paid sexual relationship with him. The court also heard how Mosquera participated in sex acts and dominated and degraded Mr Alfonso, who was in a "submissive" role and referred to Mosquera as "master".
In the days before the murders Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth took Mosquera to Brighton for the day, with photos showing them at Brighton pier, drinking beer and enjoying a zip wire ride. They also engaged in sex sessions along with another man, referred to by the pseudonym James Smith during the case, which had to be put to a retrial after incorrect evidence was placed before the jury.
Delivering the sentence, Mr Justice Bennathan told the killer: "Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso were a settled affectionate couple. People who knew them well spoke of Mr Alfonso as caring for and being devoted to Mr Longworth. They lived together in a comfortable flat in west London where their neighbours thought of them well. It was their tragedy that you came into their lives."
Mr Justice Bennathan described the murders as "pre-meditated and thoroughly wicked". He said Mosquera's relationship with Albert Alfonso was "transactional" in that he paid him for sexual services, but he added it was "legal and consensual". He also said Mosquera was "well looked after" by Mr Alfonso, who paid for his gym membership, English lessons, as well as trips to Brighton and visits to bars.
He added: "You began to research the value of the flat which Albert Alfonso owned, and no doubt that seemed to you a vast amount of money. It was naïve to think that you would ever be able to sell the property after Mr Alfonso and Mr Longworth were dead, but I am sure you hoped to do so.
"Computer searches show that you also began to consider ways to get rid of your victims. On 18 June you investigated buying a chest freezer, obviously as a place to store their murdered bodies, and by 4 July you were translating phrases to allow you to ask for a freezer to be delivered to the flat.
"On 27 June you were stealing Mr Alfonso’s bank details. On 8 July you researched where to hit someone on the head to kill them. Around midday on 8 July you murdered Paul Longworth. He was 71 - a retired handyman, a harmless, amiable person who had done you no wrong.
"He and you were both in the flat. You probably placed a plastic bag over his head before, I am sure, delivering a series of savage blows with a hammer. When you had killed him you hid his body under his bed and no doubt made some basic efforts to clean up before Albert Alfonso came home from work.
"At about 10pm that same day you murdered Albert Alfonso. He was 62. A hard-working man who had shown you kindness and generosity.
"You and he began one of the sex sessions as you had done before. When he was kneeling you took the knife you had hidden nearby and very deliberately cut his throat. His brutal killing was captured on the various cameras he habitually set up to record your sessions together.
"He put up some resistance but he was caught unawares by a younger, stronger man, and you were able to cut his throat and push his body to the floor. You then danced with pleasure at what you had accomplished and immediately set about trying to empty his bank accounts.
"Since your trial I have ordered a psychiatric report. It has been completed by Dr Bernard Chin and Dr Norma Estrada, to whom I express my thanks. It concludes that there is no diagnosed mental state that amounts to mitigation. The doctors noted as traits that you are capable of being charming and charismatic, you grow bored easily, and at times you tell lies.
"Dr Chin noted features of you that match the International Classification of Diseases definition of personality disfunction, namely self-centredness and a lack of empathy: Anyone who witnessed your trial will have no difficulty in accepting all those findings. Within the doctors’ detailed and careful report is an account you gave to them of witnessing the killing of other children when you were at school in a town in Colombia, one when you were 10 years’ old, another when you were 14.
"The doctors have not shied away from finding you were at times dishonest when speaking to them, but there is no suggestion that the history of witnessing the violent deaths of other children was untrue. Dr Estrada’s view is that while those experiences did not inhibit your ability to reason or exercise self-control during these offences, they may have shaped the way you view violence.
"Dr Estrada has the advantage of being a native Latin American Spanish speaking forensic psychiatrist with regional familiarity of Latin America. Although it is a slight finding expressed in cautious terms, it may be it provides some partial explanation for your callous and brutal conduct in killing two harmless older men."
In his final remarks, the judge said: "The only sentences I can pass are of life imprisonment. The sentence for both offences of murder is life imprisonment with a minimum term of 42 years.
"Those sentences have to be concurrent to one another. I stress that is a minimum, you may never be safe to set free. I deduct the days already served. On both count one and count two, the murders of Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso, the sentence is life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years 264 days.
"You are a Colombian national and as such you will be deported if you are ever released."
Mosquera also today pleaded guilty to three child porn charges on top of the two murder counts against him. He agreed to plead guilty to the extra counts, which the court heard relate to thousands of images of "unlawful child porn" found on his laptop after his arrest for the killings, including pictures and videos. They included 1,500 Category-A images, 750 Category-B, and 4,000 Category C.
Mr Justice Bennathan sentenced Mosquera to 16 months for the Category-A images, four months for the Category B images and two months for the Category C images, with all the sentences to be served concurrently. The court heard the pictures and videos were found on a laptop Mosquera brought to Britain from Colombia.
Mosquera was found to be a member of chat groups on encrypted messaging apps Viber and Signal, where the court heard indecent images of children were being shared. File names of videos and pictures he viewed included references to sex acts with "very young children", including some aged as young as two.
The judge told Mosquera: "They were very young children being subjected to a variety of sexual abuse, of horrifying detail and nature... penetrative sexual abuse on very small children. There are a number of aggravating features.
"There are a large number of images, a number have been watched. Some of them are moving images and you were actively involved in a network facilitating abuse of children."
Speaking outside court, Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride said: "This has been one of the most harrowing murders my team and I have ever investigated. The team have consumed hundreds of hours of footage, including watching the murder of Albert Alfonso numerous times. Those images will stay with all of us for a very long time.
"Paul and Albert were murdered in the most brutal and callous of ways. They had known one another for decades and were in a loving caring relationship. They did not deserve to have their lives taken away in the most traumatising of circumstances in the privacy of their own home where they had welcomed Mosquera in.
"The couple had opened their door to a man so evil he would take advantage of their lively spirit, generosity, and murder them to satisfy his own gains.
"The investigation has been incredibly complex. We have worked tirelessly to secure the trust of those who have been invaluable contributors to our investigation and build a catalogue of evidence that would ensure we bring Mosquera to justice.
"We are grateful to all of those who have helped us build this investigation, including Avon & Somerset Police, as well as the many witnesses who have provided detailed accounts of events that must have been extremely hard to share.
"I would also like to thank colleagues from the Crown Prosecution Service and Counsel for their efforts in this case. We've worked closely with the LGBT+ independent advisory group and I'm immensely grateful for their support and advice they have provided as we have monitored the investigation.
"This is a case that has deeply affected many people from all walks of life and it has been traumatic for all of my colleagues involved to work on. This sentence sees justice secured for the cold-blooded murder of two innocent men and has taken an evil and dangerous offender off the streets. "A sentence of this length demonstrates the seriousness of which the judge took his offending. My thoughts remain with all those who loved Paul and Albert and whilst nothing can bring them back I hope this sentence offers some semblance of justice and closure as they continue to process what happened."
Miranda Jollie, Senior Crown Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service's Homicide Team, said: "First and foremost our thoughts remain today with everyone who knew Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso.
"Paul and Albert were taken from them in violent and brutal circumstances. It was clear that Yostin Mosquera planned and calculated every action in the lead up to the killings.
"This included the pre-meditated purchase of a chest freezer, internet searches on how to inflict fatal injuries, accessing financial documents and accessing Albert's bank account in the immediate aftermath of the attack. It is with thanks to diligent members of the public and the police investigation that he was caught and we were able to piece together extensive evidence that fully revealed the horror of his crimes.
"This was not a straight-forward case despite its initial appearances, with Mosquera caught trying to dispose of the two bodies. He blamed Mr Alfonso for the murder of Mr Longworth before he says he lost control and killed Mr Alfonso.
"To rebut this twisted version of events and Mosquera's broader efforts to frustrate the prosecution, the prosecution team used witness statements, CCTV footage, digital and forensic evidence to satisfy the jury of his guilt. We hope today's sentence brings some solace to those who knew Paul and Albert and reassures them justice has been delivered."