A Colombian national has been convicted of murdering two men in London in a case authorities described as one of the most disturbing they have ever handled.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was found guilty Tuesday of killing Paul Longworth, 71, and Albert Alfonso, 62, inside their west London apartment in July 2023. The two men were in a relationship and had allowed Mosquera, a porn actor, to stay with them prior to the murders, the New York Post reports.
Prosecutors presented graphic evidence in court, including a video initially set up to record a sex act but which instead captured the killings.
The footage showed Mosquera naked and covered in blood, singing and dancing after attacking the victims. “Do you like it?” Mosquera said to Alfonso while stabbing him, hours after having already beaten Longworth to death with a hammer and hiding his body under a blanket.
Following the murders, Mosquera decapitated and dismembered both men, placing their heads in a freezer and attempting to access their banking information. Two days later, he was apprehended in Bristol—approximately 100 miles from the crime scene—while carrying additional body parts in suitcases. He had discarded some of the remains at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a well-known UK landmark.
Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride described the investigation as “probably one of the most traumatic, harrowing murder investigations I’ve dealt with.”
He added that his team had viewed “hundreds of hours of footage, including some of the utmost disturbing and graphic nature,” and said, “Those images will stay with all of us for a very long time.”
Mosquera admitted to killing Alfonso but claimed he lost control in the moment. He argued for a lesser charge of manslaughter.
A jury at Woolwich Crown Court rejected that defense and found him guilty of murder. The court had to review the graphic video footage multiple times during the trial.
“We put serious demands on jurors, in this case more than most,” said Judge SirJoel Nathan Bennathan.
Mosquera is scheduled to be sentenced on October 24.
