A convicted murderer who killed a couple and dumped their remains in suitcases near Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years.
Yostin Andres Mosquera murdered civil partners Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, in a west London flat on 8 July last year.
The 35-year-old, who was staying with the couple in Scotts Road in Shepherd’s Bush, froze parts of their remains after ‘decapitating and dismembering’ them.
The killer then travelled 115 miles with the rest of their body parts in suitcases to Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, with the plan to throw them over into the water.
CCTV shows the killer carrying the suitcase of body parts on Mosquera’s journey to Clifton Suspension Bridge
Mr Alfonso, who enjoyed “extreme sex”, met the Colombian national online years before they lived together as a trio.
Despite only admitting he killed Mr Alfonso by manslaughter through loss of control, it took jurors over five hours to unanimously find Mosquera guilty of murdering the couple.
Sentencing him for the murders, Mr Justice Bennathan told the defendant: “Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso were a settled, affectionate couple.
“It was their tragedy that you, Yostin Mosquera, came into their lives. I now have to sentence you for these premeditated and thoroughly wicked crimes.”
The 25-year-old was also jailed for 16 months for possessing “horrifying” indecent images and videos of children.
The 999 call made to police after Mosquera abandons the suitcases near the Suspension Bridge
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