A Colombian killer smashed a pensioner over the head with a hammer at least 13 times before dismembering his body with a power tool and shoving it in a suitcase, a court has heard.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is accused of murdering couple Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, at their flat in London on July 8 last year.
Jurors have been shown horrifying footage of Mosquera stabbing Mr Alfonso to death during an extreme sex session at his flat in Scott’s Road, Shepherd’s Bush.
He is said to have killed Mr Longworth earlier that evening by bludgeoning him repeatedly over the head with a hammer.
Mr Longworth’s cause of death was described as resulting from blunt force trauma to the head.
Mosquera caved in his skull by striking it with a hammer on nine different sites, a post mortem revealed.
The biggest injury site had been struck ‘at least four’ times, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
As a result of the hammer smashing, Mr Longworth had multiple ‘fragmented’ fractures, and ‘some of the bone pieces had been pushed inwards.
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, a Colombian national, has denied murder but admitted to the manslaughter of one of the men
Albert Alfonso, 62, (right) and Paul Longworth, 71, (left) – their bodies were dismembered and dumped in suitcases in Bristol
He then used the power tool to cut Mr Longworth’s head off and cut the rest of his body up.
The remains of the two men were taken to Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on 10 July.
Police officers opened up the large suitcases to find the victims’ body parts.
One of the suitcases had a tag on it linking them back to an address on Scott’s Road in Shepherd’s Bush.
Officers arrived at the address and found the heads of both Mr Longworth and Mr Alfonso inside a chest freezer.
Forensic pathologist Dr Deborah Cook was asked for her conclusions after she performed a post-mortem on Mr Longworth.
She told the court the cause of death was ‘blunt force trauma to the head.’
She said: ‘The formal wording is blunt force trauma to the head, but I can tell you the level of force required is severe.
‘The largest wound was several injuries, so the blows have to be more than nine in number.
‘By the time you have several blows onto an area that is already fractured, you can no longer distinguish one from the next.
Mosquera (left) is pictured alongside Albert Alfonso (centre) and Paul Longworth (right)
Forensic officers at the couple’s address in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, after human remains were found in two suitcases near the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
‘Inside the skull is in multiple small pieces, and many of those fragments are driven inwards.’
Asked by prosecutor Deanna Heer KC how many she thought there were, she said: ‘I would say at least four at that site.
Ms Heer asked: ‘Strikes with what?
‘A hammer,’ Dr Cook replied.
‘When a hammer strikes the head, the shape of the laceration is curved if the force is hard enough and sometimes if it is not used flat on, then one part of the hammer is going in.
‘All the injuries can be accounted for with a hammer.’
Mr Longworth was found to have an blood alcohol read of 114mg, above the drink drive limit of 80mg.
Dr Cook made it clear that his alcohol level would not have impeded him though and that was clear due to the defence injuries to his hand.
She said: ‘The type of injuries on the right hand are what we call defence-type injuries.
‘The hand comes up to the head to protect it and the hammer then strikes the hand, causing those injuries.
Jurors have been shown horrifying footage of Mosquera (right) stabbing Mr Alfonso to death during an extreme sex session at his flat in Scott’s Road, Shepherd’s Bush, west London
Other parts of their bodies were found in two suitcases on Bristol’s iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge on 10 July last year
‘He would not have been incapacitated through alcohol and those defence injuries show he was able to move his hand to protect himself.
‘If he is a regular drinker, he may not have experienced any effects from a blood alcohol level of 114.’
Mr Longworth’s head was found with the upper set of dentures still in place.
He was found to have chronic liver disease, known as cirrhosis, but the exact cause of that could not be confirmed by the pathologist.
After he died, Mr Longworth’s body was cut up by Mosquera, using a combination of a knife and a power tool, it was said.
He was cut across his thyroid cartilage, which in men is the Adam’s apple.
Dr Cook said: ‘That was cut through and then next to that you have your carotid artery, that was cut through.
‘Then at the back of the neck you have seven spine bones and the cut went between the fifth and the sixth spine bones in the neck.’
Bones in the right arm of Mr Longworth appear to have been snapped rather than cut according to Dr Cook.
‘Some sort of tool must have been used but it did not leave any distinctive marks on those left arm bones,’ she said.
Ms Heer asked: ‘What about the right?
‘They just appeared snapped so not showing anything that could be linked to a tool,’ Dr Cook replied.
‘Just at the end of the right radius a tool has been used to start the cutting.’
Ms Heer asked: ‘So perhaps an attempt to use the tool and then snapping?
‘Yes,’ she replied. ‘The use of the tool must have come before the snapping but I don’t think I can say much more than that.’
Mr Longworth’s leg had been completely ‘disarticulated’ and appears to have been cut off with a knife and tool.
Dr Cook said: ‘The skin line at the top of the left was very ragged, it was not one swift movement of a knife, it was several, I can’t say how many, but several movements of the knife.’
Ms Heer asked: ‘What about the bone?
‘There was a tool mark cut on the bone,’ Dr Cook replied.
Mosquera denies the murder of retired handyman Mr Longworth and Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor.
He has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso.
The trial continues.
