Killer who murdered two men and dumped their bodies in suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge jailed
A murderer who murdered two men in London and placed their dismembered remains in suitcases near the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol has been jailed for at least 42 years.
Yostin Andres Camira, 35, killed civil partners Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, at their flat on Scotts Road in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, on July 8 last year.
It was revealed that the Colombian citizen repeatedly stabbed Alfonso, who was injured in his body, face and neck, and Longworth’s skull was shattered after he was attacked with a hammer.
Camira, who stayed with the couple, then “decapitated and dismembered” them, froze some of their remains, and took the rest to the bridge in suitcases.
A jury at Woolwich Crown Court unanimously found Mosquera guilty of both murders. Sentencing him to two life sentences to run concurrently for two murders, Mr Justice Bennathan told the defendant: “Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso were a settled, caring couple. It was their tragedy that you, Yostin Camira, entered their lives.”
On Friday, the judge sentenced Camira to 16 months in prison after he admitted possessing 750 category B images and 4,000 category C images, as well as at least 1,500 category A photographs or fake photographs of children, including videos.
At the sentencing on Friday, Mosquera was also sentenced to 16 months in prison for possessing at least 1,500 “appalling” indecent photographs and videos of children.
The court heard Alfonso enjoyed extreme sex and met Camira, who was part of that world, online several years ago. Alfonso was stabbed during a filmed session, and in court Camiira asked “Do you like it?” Footage of him asking was played. and also singing and dancing after the attack.
Seconds later, the killer broke into the computer to steal his victims’ bank accounts. Jurors heard Camira tried to open a bank account using a Scotts Road address. Immediately after the murders, he accessed a spreadsheet containing financial passwords and attempted to log into the couple’s bank accounts. He tried to transfer £4,000 to his account in Colombia but was unsuccessful.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told the court that Camira’s plan was to throw the suitcases off the bridge to dispose of the remains after “calculated” and “premeditated” murders.
Camira admitted killing Alfonso, but claimed it was manslaughter due to loss of control. He pleaded not guilty to murdering the two men and claimed that Alfonso killed Longworth.
Camira told the jury she feared for her own life and believed she would be killed when she stabbed Alfonso. He said he was intimidated and threats were made to his family in Colombia.
The computer asks “where in the head is a hit lethal?” Searches using the expression. It was held on the day the couple was killed.
On 10 July, Camira was taken to Bristol and told a cyclist who saw him on the bridge with a large red bag and a silver trunk that contained car parts. The bridge staff noticed something leaking from the red bag, which Camira told them was oil. When they shined their torches on the suitcases, he ran away.
The court heard that Mosquera, who did not speak English, made repeated computer searches for a freezer before the murders. Most of the calls were in Spanish, some using Google translate, and they were made when Camira was the only person in the house.
Inquired about delivery options and searches were conducted for chest freezer, chest freezer, large indoor freezer and outdoor freezer.
The jury heard that the phrase “hammer murderer” was recorded on a computer in the days before the murders.
The murdered couple had been living together for 20 years and became same-sex in February 2023. According to the senior investigating officer on the case, they were each other’s “everything”.
“They were great friends,” Detective Chief Inspector Ollie Stride, of the Metropolitan Police, said. “They didn’t have a lot of family and friends around them, and they were each other’s rock, each other’s everything.”
