{"id":103311,"date":"2025-05-15T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103311\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:51:08","slug":"bristol-suitcase-murder-trial-simply-cannot-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103311\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol suitcase murder trial ‘simply cannot continue’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jury has been discharged<\/p>\n

George Lithgow, PA<\/strong> and Jamie Hawkins<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:32, 15 May 2025<\/p>\n

\"ManThe police cordon near the Suspension Bridge(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n

The jury in the trial of a man accused of decapitating a couple before taking some of their remains in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol has been discharged.<\/p>\n

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in the flat the two shared in Scotts Road, Shepherd\u2019s Bush, west London.<\/p>\n

The prosecution opened its case at the Old Bailey at the end of last month but on Thursday Mr Justice Bennathan discharged the jury.<\/p>\n

He said there had been problems identifying the accurate times of searches made by Mosquera on his laptop, which had been used as evidence in the trial.<\/p>\n

The judge told jurors that the trial \u201csimply cannot continue\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe simply have to resolve this before we have a fair trial,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Bennathan thanked jurors for the service and said he was sorry for where the trial had \u201cended up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mosquera has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso by way of loss of self-control, but denies both charges of murder.<\/p>\n

A provisional retrial date has been fixed for June where a new jury will be selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury has been discharged George Lithgow, PA and Jamie Hawkins 11:32, 15 May 2025 The police cordon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,18959,30,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-103311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-clifton","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114511471453734753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}