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- A Colombian porn star was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 42 years for brutally killing a couple at their English home in July 2024
- Prosecutors said Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, dismembered Paul Longworth, 71, and Albert Alfonso, 62, and stuffed some of their remains in suitcases he tried to dispose of at a bridge
- Mosquera told authorities that he killed Alfonso because he lost control, but he denied murdering Longworth, alleging that Alfonso did it instead
A porn star who was convicted of dismembering a couple and stuffing some of their remains in suitcases he tried to dispose of at a bridge has learned his fate.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 42 years for the 2024 murders of 71-year-old Paul Longworth and 62-year-old Albert Alfonso in a London apartment, the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police announced on Friday, Oct. 24.
He was found guilty of two counts of murder in July after prosecutors denied his manslaughter plea.
Prosecutors said the “pornographic performer” from Colombia, who was in consensual sexual relationship with Alfonso, killed him and Longworth in a premediated attack at their apartment on July 8, 2024.
Mosquera had gotten to know the couple, who were in a civil partnership, over a number of years and had been staying with them for about a month prior to the murders, which prosecutors said were motivated by finances.
That afternoon, Mosquera first attacked Longworth with a hammer to the back of the head while Alfonso was at work, per the police statement. He then hid the body in a storage space under the bed in Longworth’s bedroom and waited for Alfonso to come home.
Later that evening, video footage from Alfonso’s bedroom showed Mosquera performing sex acts on Alfonso in his bedroom, before repeatedly stabbing him and cutting his throat, police said.
Mosquera also recorded a video of himself singing and dancing after killing Alfonso, The Guardian reported, citing prosecutors.
He then dismembered the couple, put some of the remains in suitcases, and tried to get rid of them at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on July 10, 2024. But when a person spotted him “acting strangely” he ran away, prosecutors said, adding that “it became obvious that one of the suitcases was leaking blood.”
“Police were called and made the gruesome discovery of body parts contained within the cases,” prosecutors said. “A luggage label led them to Mr. Longworth and Mr. Alfonso’s flat in Shepherd’s Bush, London, where police also found their decapitated heads and remaining body parts stored in a chest freezer.”
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Mosquera was arrested three days later. In the weeks leading up to the murders, Mosquera searched online to find the value of the Shepherd’s Bush property and accessed personal information about the couple’s finances, prosecutors said. He also looked up chest freezers online, including the one that he later ordered to be delivered to the address.
Additionally, Mosquera searched online for how long it would take for a corpse to start decomposing and where on the head would be a fatal blow. Prosecutors said evidence showed he also tried to steal from the victims’ bank accounts after the murders and accessed a boarding pass for a return flight to Colombia.
Mosquera told authorities that he killed Alfonso because he lost control, but he denied murdering Longworth, alleging that Alfonso did it instead.
“Our thoughts remain with all those that knew and loved Paul and Albert — and whilst nothing can bring them back, I hope this sentence offers some semblance of justice and closure as you continue to process the trauma of what happened,” Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride said in the police statement.
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