The jury in the trial of a man accused of decapitating a couple before dumping some of their remains in suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge has been discharged.

Colombian national Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, was on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, and is said to have left body parts at the iconic bridge in Bristol.

Mosquera was allegedly filmed dancing and singing in jubilation within seconds of slitting the throat of Mr Alfonso during a sex game caught on camera on July 8, 2024.

Hours earlier, the 35-year-old allegedly battered Mr Alfonso’s partner Mr Longworth to death with a hammer in order to steal from the London couple, whom he had met online. 

He is accused of spending the next two days dismembering the bodies with a saw at the couple’s flat in Shepherd’s Bush before putting their remains in suitcases to throw over the Clifton Suspension Bridge 115 miles away in Bristol. 

The prosecution opened its case at the Old Bailey at the end of last month but on Thursday Mr Justice Bennathan discharged the jury.

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. 

The judge told jurors that the trial ‘simply cannot continue’.

Mosquera (left) is pictured alongside Albert Alfonso (centre) and Paul Longworth (right)

The Metropolitan Police released this picture of a suitcase left by Clifton Suspension Bridge

Yostin Andres Mosquera (pictured) is due to face a retrial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year

‘We simply have to resolve this before we have a fair trial,’ he added.

Mr Justice Bennathan told the jury: ‘Ladies and gentlemen I regret to tell you that for reasons I will explain we simply cannot continue with this trial so I’m about to abandon this trial and discharge you from being on this jury and the trial will have to happen again.

‘Because you have been here for three weeks and exposed to some dramatic evidence, because of that I thought you were due a proper explanation as to what happened.

‘The defendant’s laptop was analysed and some of the activity and searches on that laptop were put in evidence.

‘At some stage it was realised that the CCTV of outside the flats meant that at least one of the timings couldn’t be right because no one was in the flat at that time.

‘People are trying to resolve that. Experts are being brought in and as we speak are reassembling the laptop and conducting experiments on it.

‘They are trying to work out what the real timings were on the laptop.

‘I’m afraid it’s been a great waste of your time, my time and the Central Criminal Court’s valuable court space.’

A court artist drawing by Elizabeth Cook of Yostin Andres Mosquera (right) in the dock on May 1

Scotland Yard released images of a taxi arriving at barriers on Clifton Suspension Bridge

Mosquera was arrested days after police were alerted to a man acting suspiciously on Clifton Suspension Bridge (pictured) where police found two suitcases  of human remains

Mr Justice Bennathan thanked jurors for the service and said he was sorry for where the trial had ‘ended up’.

Mosquera has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Alfonso by way of loss of self-control, but denies both charges of murder.

A provisional retrial date has been fixed for June 30 at Woolwich Crown Court, where a new jury will be selected.

The date will be confirmed at a hearing at the Old Bailey on June 13.