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I was at home.

I got a phone call from one of the Detective Chief Inspectors

in the police, asking basically who was in charge

of the Major Crime Team that day.

I was off, so I didn't know who was in charge,

but I, I asked that person, um, "Why are you asking?"

Er, and that's when she told me about the,

what had happened overnight, on the suspension bridge.

At that stage, I didn't know what role I was gonna take

within the investigation and, but you could understand right

from the start, this was gonna be something big, something different.

So, I, I just asked, "So, what do we know so far?"

So, I was told that just before midnight,

a male had gone onto the suspension bridge

pulling a suitcase behind him.

People on the bridge challenged him and at that stage, he ran off.

And then straight after the 999 call, uniformed police attended.

Those officers we deployed that night at the bridge,

no doubt their worst nightmares came true.

We don't get dismembered,

decapitated bodies in suitcases, ever.

So, every available officer that we had at our disposal

would have been deployed to that area, um,

to help look for this male.

So, we'd have used all the resources we had available,

so helicopters, staff on their feet, on the ground.

Unfortunately for us, we were some time behind the suspect

and he could potentially have run into some densely wooded area

with any number of ways to escape from that woodland.

I was appointed as a Senior Investigating Officer for this,

for this case.

So, my job from that point on was just to lead that investigation,

to try to establish what had happened.

I've been in the police for, for nearly 30 years now.

I've been on the, er, Major Crime Team for 12 years.

So, first of all, I would have spoken to the forensic leads

to find out what they knew.

I'll never forget that phone call.

They said, "We're at the mortuary...

"..and we've got a torso and some other body parts

"within the suitcase we've moved there."

"Well, there's a second suitcase.

"We've opened that and there's an additional torso in it."

At that stage, I've got at least two bodies now.

We've got a responsibility to the public to keep them

as safe as possible, but we don't wanna cause alarm

to the greater public of Bristol.

So, we certainly wouldn't give a press release of any details

of what we're dealing with at that stage, but news had travelled.

The suspension bridge is a main route into Bristol

and the suspension bridge is now shut.

I've been a journalist in Bristol for over 20 years.

And for something like this to happen there,

it's completely unheard of. Never has this happened before.

We have a news meeting every morning,

and people said the suspension bridge is shut,

it's been shut all morning, traffic chaos.

And very quickly, rumours started flying round the newsroom

that maybe something really suspicious

had been found there the night before.

The police aren't communicating with us,

but we, we knew there was something big.

These investigations are shaped by the decisions I make,

and you can't make mistakes.

So, it was really, really important that we found out

who that person was and arrest them as soon as possible.

I spoke to some of my officers who had been out

and spoken to members of the public, who had actually

engaged with the man before he ran off from the bridge.

So, for me, this was, this was brilliant.

This actually gave me a, a lead, a start.

England were playing in the semifinal

of the European Championship against Holland and my son, Giles,

had come from Florida and he was gonna join me to watch it.

When the match was finished, it was time for him to go

back to the other side of Bristol

and then we walked up for him to get his cab.

And then we noticed this strange business going on.

There was this very tall man and he was struggling with a suitcase.

In fact, a couple of young women who were coming across,

tried to help him and they, they couldn't do much.

Giles sort of caught the guy's attention and said,

"Well, fellow, that's a very heavy suitcase, clearly.

"You know, gosh that was a struggle. What have you got in there, a body?"

We didn't think too much about it then,

but obviously sub, subsequently, er, we both thought about it a lot.

Emergency, what is the location?

He had been challenged by a member of the public,

a very brave member of the public, on their bike.

Had a, had a camera.

He tries to push the phone out the hand of the cyclist

and runs off down the hill.

Cyclist is recording all of this on their phone.

So, now I had an image of this guy,

and the imagery of the male was so good,

that the decision was made to put that picture out.

I had a message from my news editor,

saying there's gonna be a press conference at two o'clock.

All morning, you've been waiting to find out why was the bridge closed.

And suddenly, the day just took on a completely different shape.

Good afternoon, everybody. You want me closer?

All the media were there. You know, Sky, ITV, everybody,

and there was, we just made a big horseshoe shape of journalists

at the end of the bridge, where it was cordoned off

and it was this moment where they said...

..."We've found not one, but two bodies

"in a suitcase on Clifton Suspension Bridge".

The city's most famous landmark.

Sadly, the suitcases contained human remains.

And straightaway, it was like, who are, whose bodies are these?

And where is the person that had brought the bodies to this,

to the suspension bridge?

Very quickly, the police shared a screen grab with us

that the cyclist caught of him that night.

We don't have a name but we have a picture of the man

they are looking for.

Our immediate priority is to locate the man

who took the suitcases to the bridge.

They're telling you they haven't got the suspect yet,

but not to worry about it.

But as a journalist, that doesn't quite sit with you

because you're telling me that you've,

you've got someone who's brought two bodies up to the suspension bridge,

but at the moment, that person is currently on the run.

- We've got the resources. - The identity of the man, though?

At this time, without the, the forensic post-mortem results,

I cannot comment on that because truthfully, I don't know.

Not, not the victims, sorry, the man.

The man we're looking for?

Um, I know what I just shared with you in terms of that, um,

photograph, so at this time, um, that, his identity,

we are still working out who that person is.

And when the police give you a picture like that,

you know they need our help and you're trying to work out,

"Who is the suspect? Where is he?"

Police in the city continue their search for a man

after two suitcases containing human remains

were found on the Clifton Suspension Bridge...

Straight from minute one, I had an image of this guy.

But we don't know who this man is or what he's capable of.

Has he got the potential to injure further people?

Clearly, my focus is on bringing that person into custody.

Just so they can't harm anybody else.

It's also really key that we identify as soon as possible

who our victims are.

The easiest way we identify somebody is by their facial features,

and markings and scars.

And as bad as it seems, that's the realism we're faced with,

is I haven't got that at this stage, but I've got decapitated bodies

and I don't know where the two, the two heads are.

And I need to identify as soon as possible

where the rest of those bodies are.

In murder investigations,

you generally get a couple of little golden nuggets that sort of set you

in the right direction, and then you follow those, those nuggets.

The crime scene investigators that had located the second case...

That case had a label on it.

It was for an address in London up in Shepherd's Bush in west London.

That's my first real clue.

I've got two victims and I've got a potential address,

so I sent one of my team off to go and get a warrant

to search that address.

Almost simultaneously, whilst my team in Bristol were getting

the search warrants, we got what I saw as, as a major breakthrough.

It was a member of the public that lives close to

the suspension bridge, and they'd seen all the police activity

so they phoned in and said, um, "Last night about 10-ish,

"just after 10, I was outside my address, put the bins out

"and there was a, a red van parked opposite my address.

"And there was a male stood on the kerb with a couple of suitcases".

It was just obviously too coincidental to what

we were investigating, so my next task was to speak to

my intelligence team and said, "Right", and literally,

"Find me a red van moving round Bristol".

And really, really quickly, they came back to me and said,

"Neil, we've identified a red van leaving around Clifton

"around that time.

"We've also done some checks on it and that van

"headed out of Bristol towards London".

Fortunately, we were able to get a registration of that van

and it identified the owner of the van,

so I wanted that person arrested and interviewed.

He says straightaway, "I picked a male up from Shepherd's Bush

"last night and took him to Bristol in my van."

"Here is a picture of the man and here is his telephone number."

And there's a WhatsApp image.

And clearly the same male that had booked the van

was the same male that had run away from the bridge.

But also, and more importantly, and most importantly,

we had a name - Yostin Mosquera.

We ran some checks on it through the computer systems

and we find out he's a Colombian national.

We looked at his telephone and where it last been tracking and, um,

the phone was pinging out towards the airport, so our biggest

concern was that he'd gone to the airport and got on a plane.

So, we did all the usual checks with the airport

and they have got no evidence to say that Mosquera

had left Bristol at that stage.

But by that time, we had a lead.

When the driver of the red van was questioned, he told us the address

that he had picked the man up from was 9 Scott's Road in London.

The exact same address as the label on the suitcase.

Hey!

As I was driving into work on the Friday, I took a phone call.

In that call, I was told that overnight, a call had come in

to the Met, um, for enquiries to be made

at an address in Shepherd's Bush.

I was told that the proactive team had gone to the address.

The flat was remarkably clean and undisturbed.

But on entering that, they'd found a freezer there.

When they'd opened the freezer, they'd seen two heads in there...

...and what looked like two hands and two feet as well.

And then, I was told that I was gonna be taking it as the SIO

and my team would be investigating it.

A whole world of things running through my, through my head.

We'd seen it in the papers, what had happened down in Bristol.

This was clearly a huge investigation,

so, um, it was gonna be all hands to the deck.

Over the next few days, things start coming out.

And that was when we were told that the investigation had been widened

and was now focusing on London,

and that the Met Police were leading on it.

Teams in London start gathering pictures

of 9 Scott's Road being searched.

So, that's when we start to suspect

that that's where the victims come from.

Later, though, we find out the name of the victims.

Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth

had been in a civil partnership together for many years.

Friends tell us that they met many years ago in the hotel trade.

Albert had come over from France. He was working in a concierge...

...and Paul was a handyman.

And you're trying to work out what has gone wrong?

What has happened here? What is the story?

It's almost like it's not real. Certainly shock.

It's like's it's almost happened to someone that I, I didn't know.

The Savoy was probably the top hotel group in the world,

certainly in this country.

Paulie was the caretaker of some property we had in Old Barrack Yard.

Incredibly wealthy people lived there,

and he would do anything the tenants needed doing.

He would change lightbulbs, he would keep the common parts clean.

He would help tenants with their bags, he would show new tenants in.

Everybody liked him, everybody knew him.

He was just somebody I relied on.

There he is, sitting next to my dad.

My husband liked him, my family liked him, my kids liked him.

He was part of the family. He got on with everyone.

I believe they were the first couple to get married

at Fulham Town Hall after it became legal for gays to get married.

And here they are, looking incredibly smart and well dressed.

And there they are with the registrar,

and that's Albert signing the register.

Albert worked front of house,

reception at the Intercontinental in Park Lane.

And he was very good at that front of house smoothness.

But I, I didn't know him as well as I knew Paul.

Paulie and Albert, they were very much a couple,

but they were very different.

Very, very different.

And how this could happen to people like that, I don't know.

I do not understand, and I would like to understand.

I cannot conceive of that kind of thing happening.

It's, it's not within my sphere of consciousness,

sphere of knowledge, sphere of anything.

I've dealt with many murders in my career, um,

and I think this is certainly the most horrific,

the most brutal I've dealt with personally.

From the post-mortem, it was established that there were

nine hammer blows to the back of Paul's head,

that were the cause of his death.

And there were some defensive wounds he had on him as well,

where he'd tried to fight back.

And Albert had 13 stab wounds to the, to the torso and arms,

and a further nine wounds to the face as well.

It was a really, really brutal attack.

Um, one of the worst, most horrific attacks I've seen.

There's always a mixture of emotions in a case like this.

Albert and Paul were murdered.

They're no longer here, nothing can bring them back, but for me,

one of the key bits was keeping the focus on Albert and Paul

as the victims of this.

So, a huge priority was, was to capture and detain Mosquera

as quickly as we could.

Yeah, it was a massive concern for me that we didn't know

where Mosquera was. We know that he'd committed

or potentially committed two horrific murders,

and a real concern of mine throughout the end of that week

was who else is he gonna harm?

You wake up on a Friday morning, the first thing you're doing

is checking your phone. Has he been found? Has he been caught?

And no, he was still on the run.

But the police had now, for the very first time,

released the suspect's name.

Yostin Mosquera.

We're told that he's a Colombian national

and at that time, we are told he's 24.

At the moment, this man is still on the run

and that is what everyone is following.

Where is this man? Where has he gone?

We had no idea what the motive for the murders was,

so one of the considerations or hypotheses

we were looking at was, was this a hate crime?

There was a particularly big event, um, in the Bristol area

that weekend, Pride weekend.

We knew by that point that Albert and Paul were

a gay couple who were married.

Was this somebody who was going to go on

and target the LGBT community further?

At that stage, there's just a buzz about the place.

There's police everywhere, there's extra police vans up there

to reassure the public. There's millions of journalists.

There were more news crews than actual residents.

It was swarming.

Stories like this are, are, they're the biggest pitfalls

for all, I'd say crime journalists.

You don't want to do anything which might jeopardise

the police's efforts to catch this person.

But it was clear from what we were getting that the police,

they needed our help to amplify the story,

catch this man, put him behind bars.

We had a man outstanding who'd already killed two individuals

and we didn't know what his motive was,

whether he was gonna go on and kill more.

But at that point, for me, the key priority to that,

we're dealing with a scene.

I go down to every scene to see it for myself

because we can all look at pictures, but actually,

things sometimes look and feel differently

and there's, there's things that don't always translate

into pictures or videos.

We've searched the bins outside because people try

and dispose of evidence.

We found a knife outside that was the murder weapon for Albert.

And as soon as we walked into the flat, in the hallway,

the freezer was still there.

But apart from the freezer, the house was remarkably clean

and undisturbed. Didn't look like there had been two murders

and dismemberments had taken place in there a matter of days before.

It's a one-bedroom flat, but they were using it

as a two-bedroom flat, so there was no lounge, per se.

To the right-hand side, we had Paul's bedroom

and then Albert's bedroom.

In Paul's bedroom, there was a hammer.

And we found a plastic bag in Paul's bedroom.

We think that was put over Paul's head, um,

and he was hit over the head with a hammer through that plastic bag,

um, when he was being murdered.

Then that would have absorbed the blood within that plastic bag,

rather than it spraying across the walls and ceiling.

It was unclear when Albert and Paul were dismembered.

But there was a small amount of blood on the bathroom ceiling

and if that's where the bodies were dismembered,

it must have been cleared up fairly well.

We found latex gloves, we found what we call forensic oversuits

that had been worn and to me, they painted a picture of

a premeditated, planned attack and it wasn't something

that had just happened out of the blue.

We knew who the suspect was at that point,

but we didn't know where he was and what he was capable of doing next.

He was a Colombian national.

We had very little detail of any criminal past

or any criminal activity he'd done previously.

There was a very minor traffic offence he had,

um, on his record in Colombia, and that was it.

There was no criminal background and we knew very little about him

from the Colombians.

We had no idea what the motive for the murders was.

But him being a Colombian national,

was that linked to the cartels and the drug trade?

So, I had to keep an open mind.

The nature of the crime, bodies on a bridge, the person the police

were looking for, I thought this was something cartel-related.

It's hard for your mind not to go towards that stream of thought.

Is this part of a bigger drugs crime?

Has he been sent here to kill these people?

There's all these theories that are running alongside each other.

So we, we tried a couple of methods to find out

who Yostin Mosquera actually is.

Who, who is this guy that we're looking into?

Colombian police, send them an email.

Do they, do they know of this person?

Does he have a criminal record? Have they come across him?

OSIN, Open Source Intelligence work.

Searching Google, social media profiles.

Just blank after blank after blank.

But there are a few blanks littered with tiny nuggets of information.

There was the fact that he did military service.

There was some little detail about a wife,

but again, you actually don't know what to do with it.

It was like this guy's a spook

who's gone through a lot of methods to scrub himself

digitally from the online world.

You start speculating, how have these three come together?

What is their relationship? How do they know each other?

We know he's a Colombian national, but what else do we know about him?

One of the things that is so important to consider in this case

is the culture that Mosquera comes from.

In Colombia, violence is used as a problem-solving strategy.

But what he did post-mortem, post the murders,

professionally speaking, is incredibly chaotic.

My name's Jo Clarke and I've spent probably half of my career

working as a psychologist in prisons with some of the most dangerous,

damaged, disruptive offenders in our system.

When we consider what Mosquera did post-offence,

which was to dismember Paul and Albert's bodies

and put them in suitcases, there are so many things

that don't add up in his behaviour.

You know, why did he make the decision to leave some body parts

at the house and to take other parts with him?

He decides to take some parts in a suitcase

to a place that they'd be really hard to dispose of.

There's no evidence that he's been there before,

and there were luggage labels on the suitcases

that he left the bodies in.

And all of this points to something really quite odd going on.

He clearly isn't thinking like most people think.

One of the things that really fascinates me

about this offence is the fact that there were two murders

and they were committed completely differently.

When you look at the murder of Paul,

he was hit with a hammer several times,

and it was likely to be a completely instrumental use of force

to ensure that he was dead.

With Albert, judging by the post-mortem reports,

it feels like there's a more frenzied attack.

So it doesn't fit a pattern, it doesn't fit a proforma.

It's a really unusual offence.

If I were to be presented with this case to assess,

I would want to go right back to the start of the relationship

of the perpetrator with the victims.

But we don't know anything about the nature of their relationship

and the dynamic of that relationship.

Once we'd identified Mosquera, we looked at his

travel history and there had been a previous trip

where he had come to the UK.

We also looked at Albert and Paul's travel history, um,

and Albert had travelled to Colombia a number of times.

That was quite a surprise for us.

Yostin had travelled to the UK on the 8th of June that year,

so about a month before the murders,

and we'd seen that he'd been met at the airport by Albert.

I was surprised because at that point,

we didn't know the relationship between Albert and Mosquera,

so one of the key things is trying to establish Yostin knew the victims

and what their relationship was.

Going through bank statements, we were able to identify that

Albert had paid for Mosquera to book a flight to come over to the UK.

There would also be times when Albert would send

money over to him in Colombia.

There were 72 payments that Albert made to Mosquera

for between five and a half and six thousand pounds,

um, into his account.

Paul was funny. He liked a laugh.

Everyone liked him a lot. He was a regular in our pub.

He was, er, a real nice... gentleman.

Paul was the main character, not Albert.

Albert never made an effort to speak to anyone.

It didn't seem like he was overly inviting you to chat.

Paul would never talk about what Albert got up to, or nothing.

He was kind of...

He just never mentioned.

What did I think had happened? I don't know.

You think, think of lots of things that could have happened.

People saying that Albert went to Colombia with, er, this guy,

then brought him back.

And it wasn't the first time. He's been over a few times, apparently.

Someone in the pub mentioned that he's been for years, on and off.

They were very different. Very, very different.

I mean, I, I always wondered about the relationship.

I never quite understood it.

Albert was also away a lot.

When he was in Oman, or one of those countries,

he'd come back with huge cans of Iranian caviar.

I remember once he brought a beautiful Persian rug into the flat.

Things like that, that made you suspicious.

36 hours after the suitcase had been left on the bridge,

and we still didn't have a clue where he was, but we still

had teams deployable,

teams available should he be spotted in Bristol.

Then just before midnight on the 12th into the 13th,

I had a, a phone call from the Superintendent in the Met,

who said, "Neil, his phone's moving again in Bristol."

And my next port of call was to phone our teams

that were able to deploy. Can you get a team together

as quickly as possible and get out on the ground

and see if you can try to locate him?

We knew his phone was moving in Bristol, and those teams

took it on themselves to try to predict where he was gonna go.

Kept getting some feedback from the Met about where his phone was moving

and that was intermittent.

So, what could his possible mindset be?

So, the team that were deployed on the ground

thought to themselves, he's probably aiming for a transport hub.

We knew that he wasn't heading towards the airport

cos he was moving in the wrong direction.

So the only other place was the bus station or the train station.

This is Yostin Andres Mosquera,

a 24-year-old Colombian national,

last seen here, near the Clifton Suspension Bridge,

late on Wednesday night.

We'd been working on this, trying to find him for three days.

I've got a lot of tired officers, but you know, you've got a feeling

that in a minute, we're gonna have him in custody.

Give me your hand. Hands! Hands!

Ooh! (bleep)!

I've got, I've got a hand, I've got a hand, mate. Go!

Stay down, guv, yeah.

At this time, mate, you're under arrest on suspicion of murder.

You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned something

you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Do you understand?

You are currently under arrest for murder, OK?

What's your name, mate?

What's your name? "Nombre"?

- Jot? - Yeah.

Jot or Joss?

Surname?

- "Sir"? - Jot, what?

- Mosquera? - Yeah.

So, we'd gone from the Wednesday morning,

Thursday morning to not knowing who our victims were

and who our suspect was, to 36, 48 hours later,

having this, having the perpetrator in custody.

But Avon & Somerset officers take real pride in what they did

to get it to that stage, I think.

It was a, it was a huge relief,

but we had 24 hours to deal with Mosquera in custody.

And the pressure is really on to try and get to a point of charge

with the Crown Prosecution Service by the end of those 24 hours.

My attention turned to what we needed to speak to him about,

so we wanted to know what had happened,

how he'd come to be in this situation,

his relationship with Albert and Paul, and ultimately,

why he had done what he'd done.

I was going through in my head, there must have been a...

Something that led up to this, a, a chain of events that's,

that's escalated to this point.

A key part of the investigation was involving the search of the flat.

In Albert's bedroom, we had several laptops,

mobile phones, hard drives.

There was a webcam underneath the desk.

Huge amounts of content on these devices.

So we had to get them sent off to the lab

to be downloaded and reviewed.

So when we started reviewing, um, digital media...

...we found pictures of Albert, Paul and Mosquera.

And we'd established that when Paul had just retired,

Albert and Paul both travelled out to Colombia.

Albert paid for Mosquera to travel down to the coastal resort.

Seeing the three of them together...

...was quite surprising initially.

Um, and I think it showed that they were friends.

We then spoke to, um, friends of Albert and Paul,

who were able to tell us that Yostin had come over

and had been staying with them.

We started to build a picture of Albert's lifestyle.

And when we started reviewing the digital media devices,

we'd established that Albert had a...

Had a particularly high sexual appetite.

He liked being filmed whilst he was having sex

and posted a lot of content online.

He also liked to engage in sexual practices of being dominated.

He liked to be urinated and defecated on, and vomited on.

There was a deviant sexual interest in some very odd behaviour,

which is not within what most people would consider normal,

acceptable sexual behaviour.

You're thinking this case can't get any worse,

and then you find out that they were into extreme sex.

I didn't think, and it did catch me by surprise,

that sex played a factor in this, this murder.

My biggest concern was the webcam

that was underneath the computer desk.

That appeared to have been left connected.

The team had been reviewing what they could,

when one of my team came into, came into the office.

Um, he was white as a sheet and said to me...

"Boss, you need to have a look at what I've just found".

Didn't know what was, what was coming.

So, I was, "OK, what, what have we got?"

Um, he said, "He's filmed the murder".

It became quite obvious quite quickly that what had happened

inside 9 Scott's Road had been videoed.

They'd set up, um, a number of cameras within the,

within the bedroom of the house.

It's not unusual to, um, to have murders caught on CCTV,

or caught on camera these days.

But to have cameras specifically set up in a room,

and then go on to capture the murder, that was a big shock for us.

You're thinking that's brilliant evidence for us.

But this was really close up, cinema quality footage,

and was a, a really horrendous thing to watch.

And probably the worst thing I'd seen in, in my career so far.

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