A porn star who murdered and decapitated a couple at their west London home before trying to dump the bodies in suitcases on the Clifton Suspension Bridge is facing life in jail.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, bludgeoned 71-year-old Paul Longworth over the head with a hammer and slit the throat of his partner Albert Alfonso, 62, with a knife.
The second murder was caught on film, in extremely graphic footage from cameras Mr Alfonso had set up around the home.
He slit his victim’s throat and repeatedly stabbed him, before sadistically asking: “You like it?”
The camera then caught the moment Mosquera – still naked - sings a song in Spanish and dances, with Mr Alfonso’s body laying nearby.
At Woolwich crown court on Tuesday, Columbian national Mosquera was convicted by a jury of two counts of murder.
He is set to be locked up for life, and faces several decades behind bars before he will get a chance of release.
Prosecutors believe Mosquera, who had been staying as a guest of the couple, had set his sights on using murder to seize their home and raid their savings.
He had drawn up a spreadsheet with Mr Alfonso’s bank details, and he made a series of attempts to withdraw money after the murders.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said the deaths were first discovered when Mosquera left two suitcases containing the chopped-up bodies to the Clifton Suspension Bridge at 11.30pm on July 10 last year.
Their decapitated heads were later recovered from a chest freezer at their home.
“Douglas Cunningham was cycling across the Clifton Suspension Bridge, near Bristol when he saw the defendant, Yostin Mosquera, standing next to a large red suitcase”, said Ms Heer.
“Thinking he was a lost tourist, Cunningham stopped to see if he was okay. A few metres away from the defendant, on the bridge approach, there was another suitcase, a large silver trunk. The defendant said he was from Colombia and that the suitcase 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 transported to Bristol from their home in London where they had been killed two days before.
“Their decapitated heads would be found by the police in a chest freezer at their flat at 9 Scotts Road, Shepherds Bush.
“Paul Longworth had been attacked with a hammer to the back of his head, suffering repeated blows, which shattered his skull. At the time of his death, he was 71 years of age.
“Albert Alfonso had been repeatedly stabbed, suffering multiple wounds to his torso and more to his face and neck. His throat had been cut. At the time of his death he was 62 years of age.”
Mosquera claimed he had acted in self-defence, fearing for his own life, and sickeningly suggested Mr Alfonso had been responsible for murdering Mr Longsworth.
But the video evidence showed him calmly murdering Mr Alfonso after they engaged in a sexual encounter.
He had already murdered Mr Longworth and hidden the body, and prosecutors also presented evidence of his planning of the murders.
He had made searches for Jack the Ripper, poisonings, and the effects of striking someone on the head, and critically, Mosquera had also begun researching the value of Mr Longworth and Mr Alfonso’s home.
After murdering Mr Longworth, he started researching how long it took for bodies to decompose and turn his attention to murdering Mr Alfonso.
He then bought a chest freezer online, set about raiding Mr Alfonso’s savings, and hired a man with a van to take the bodies to Bristol.
Jurors heard Mosquera met Mr Alfonso online through his work as a porn artist, and engaged in degrading sex sessions with him.
Mr Longworth was aware of his partner’s unusual sexual interests, and allowed him to have sex with other people in their relationship.
The court also heard how Mosquera went on sightseeing tours around London with the couple, went zip-lining on a trip to Brighton, and visited Madame Tussauds.
Miranda Jollie, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “First and foremost, our thoughts remain with the victims and their families and friends at this time.
“Our case – based on methodically piecing together witness statements, CCTV footage, digital and forensic evidence – was that it was simply impossible for Yostin Mosquera’s version of events to be true.
“CCTV and employment records proved that Mr Alfonso was at work when Mr Longworth was brutally murdered, and Mosquera’s search history on his laptop showed that he was looking to purchase a chest freezer even before committing his first savage killing.
“With a comprehensive timeline mapped out, the weight of evidence stacked up against him and meant that the jury could be sure he was responsible for murdering both victims.”
