Man guilty of murdering couple before dumping remains near Clifton Suspension Bridge

He pleaded not guilty to murdering both men and insisted Alfonso killed Longworth. It took a jury five hours and three minutes to unanimously find Mosquera guilty.

Justice Bennathan KC,said he would sentence Mosquera on October 24,saying: ‘I am not going to pass sentence on you today,although the only one I can pass on you is one of life imprisonment.

‘I am going to order a psychiatric report on you. It is in your interests to cooperate with the psychiatrist so that I can decide the minimum term you are going to serve.’

Days after the murders,a cyclist on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Brighton spotted Mosquera around 11.30 pm next to a large red suitcase.

The cyclist thought he was a tourist and stopped to ask if he was okay. He noticed a silver trunk a few metres away from Mosquera.

The defendant told the cyclist he was from Colombia and that the suitcases contained car parts – but they contained the dismembered bodies of Longworth and Alfonso.

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Alfonso and Longworth’s decapitated heads were found by police in a chest freezer in their flat,the court heard.

Alfonso,a swimming instructor,and Longworth,a retired handyman,had been living together before their death.

How the crime happened

Both men were killed in the London flat (Picture: PA)

On July 8 last year,Alfonso worked an early shift at the gym,and it was while he was out,Mosquera killed Longworth,the court heard.

Alfonso was killed at about 10.15 pm in his bedroom,before searching Facebook Marketplace to search for a freezer,and he searched ‘where on the head is a knock fatal’ on Google and YouTube.

Footage shown in court showed Mosquera later having sex with Alfonso,before ending the sexual encounter by ‘repeatedly stabbing’ Alfonso and ‘cutting his throat’.

The men’s home in Shepherd’s Bush was a major crime scene (Picture: PA)

He then started using Alfonso’s computer,and examination of the computer shows the defendant looking at banking information – before trying to send £4,000 to his account in Colombia.

Mosquero was arrested on July 13 at about 2.15 am after being found sitting on a bench outside Bristol Temple Meads railway station,the jury was told.