A person “decapitated and dismembered” a pair, froze elements of their stays and introduced the remainder in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, a courtroom has heard.
Yostin Andres Mosquera faces trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on 8 July final 12 months within the flat the 2 shared on Scotts Street in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.
The defendant, 35, carrying a white shirt and blue denims, has admitted the manslaughter of Alfonso however denies two fees of homicide.
The prosecutor, Deanna Heer KC, advised jurors on the Previous Bailey on Wednesday that Mosquera “might hardly deny” killing Alfonso, telling them it befell whereas the defendant and Alfonso have been having intercourse – with the intercourse and the killing recorded on movie.
However the courtroom was advised Mosquera blames Alfonso for the dying of Longworth.
Alfonso, who labored as a swimming teacher, and Longworth, a retired handyman, have been described by neighbours as a “pleasant couple who appeared joyful collectively and who have been genuinely fond of each other”. They entered right into a civil partnership in February 2023.
The courtroom heard that Alfonso preferred “excessive intercourse”, which Longworth knew about and accepted however had “nothing to do with”.
Alfonso would interact in acts with different males, together with Mosquera, jurors have been advised. The prosecution described the defendant as a “pornographic performer”.
Mosquera visited the UK greater than as soon as and frolicked with Alfonso and Longworth, participating in intercourse acts with the previous in trade for cost, and the couple additionally visited the defendant in his dwelling nation of Colombia, the courtroom was advised. “They appeared to take pleasure in each other’s firm,” Heer mentioned of the trio.
The prosecutor advised the jury that Mosquera “had different issues on his thoughts” when he visited Alfonso and Longworth in June final 12 months.
Evaluation of the defendant’s pc allegedly revealed that between June and eight July he looked for the worth of the couple’s west London dwelling, browsed Fb Market for a chest freezer, copied spreadsheets containing Alfonso’s login particulars for his on-line financial institution accounts on to his laptop computer and looked for “serial killers of London” and “Jack the Ripper movie”.
On 8 July, Mosquera allegedly killed Longworth and Alfonso of their flat after which “set about making an attempt to steal from them”, the courtroom was advised.
“Paul Longworth had been attacked with a hammer to the again of his head, struggling repeated blows, which shattered his cranium,” Heer mentioned. “Albert Alfonso had been repeatedly stabbed, struggling a number of wounds to his torso, his physique and his face and to his neck. None of that’s in dispute.”
At about 11.30pm on 10 July, a bicycle owner making his means throughout the Clifton Suspension Bridge noticed Mosquera standing subsequent to a big purple suitcase and stopped to examine on him, pondering he was a vacationer, the courtroom heard.
“The suitcases contained the decapitated and dismembered our bodies of Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso, which the defendant had transported to Bristol from their dwelling in London the place that they had been killed two days earlier than,” Heer mentioned.
Police discovered their different stays at their flat in a chest freezer, the courtroom heard.
The trial continues.
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