Columbia porn actor accused of Clifton Suspension Bridge murders tells jury how he cut up victim's body
Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, knifed Albert Alfonso, 62, repeatedly during sex after he had allegedly bludgeoned his partner Paul Longworth, 71, with a hammer.
He then put the dismembered heads in a chest freezer, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Other parts of their bodies were found in two suitcases on Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge on July 10, last year.
Mosquera had been staying at the couple's home on Scotts Road, Shepherd's Bush, west London.
He had met Mr Alfonso online where the Columbian used the names 'iamblackmaster and 'mrd-k20cm', the court heard.
He came to the UK to study English and participate in sex acts and he dominated and degraded Mr Alfonso which the older man made films of which he posted online.
Mosquera denies murdering retired handyman Mr Longworth, who he claims was killed by Mr Alfonso.
He also denies murdering Mr Alfonso, a swimming instructor, but admits manslaughter.
Earlier in his evidence, Mosquera claimed Mr Alfonso cut up Mr Longworth's body after killing him.
He said he stabbed Mr Alfonso because he was 'afraid that he would do the same to me that he had done to Paul'.
Continuing her cross-examination prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, asked Mosquera why he stabbed Mr Alfonso in the neck.
She said: 'You could have stabbed him in the back.'
Mosquera replied: 'I don't know.'
Ms Heer said: 'You could have stabbed him in the buttock, couldn't you? Mr Alfonso's back was completely unprotected.
'You're an adult, you know that if you stab someone in the neck it is likely to be very dangerous, do you agree?'
Mosquera replied: 'Yes.'
Ms Heer asked him: 'And if you keep stabbing someone in the neck you are likely to kill them?'
'Yes,' he agreed.
'The only reason why you would stab someone in the neck in that way is because you wanted to kill them, do you agree?', asked Ms Heer.
'I don't know, I don't remember anything,' said Mosquera.
'I can't be certain of anything.'
Mosquera said after seeing Mr Longworth's dismembered body, he decided to do the same to Mr Alfonso's corpse.
'Yes I saw Paul's body and I cut Albert's. I don't know the exact moment but I cut it having seen Paul's body'.
Ms Heer told Mosquera: 'You lied to people about what was in the suitcases. You told them the suitcases contained mechanical parts or car parts. And you lied to Mr Cunningham, the cyclist, and the bridge staff'.
Mosquera replied: 'Ok.'
Ms Heer said: 'You've lied to the jury, haven't you Mr Mosquera, throughout your evidence?'
'No', he replied.
Ms Heer said Mosquera had replied no comment when he was interviewed by the police.
'You made no comment so that you could wait and make up a story later, knowing that you had murdered both Paul Longworth and Albert Alfonso.'
Mosquera insisted that he had been advised by his lawyer to make no comment.
'They just told me to reply no comment,' he said.
The trial continues.
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