Human remains discovered in suitcases on Bristol Bridge: 62-year-old man from France among victims

Selon les autorités, les deux victimes n'avaient pas de famille proche. MAXPPP – Jonathan Brady

London police announced Monday that they had identified two people matching human remains found last week in suitcases on a bridge in Bristol (South West England) and the suspect of Colombian nationality, charged with double murder , was presented to justice.

The victims are two men, Paul Longworth, 71, and Albert Alfonso, 62, the latter being originally from France but naturalized British, London police said in a press release.

"Albert and Paul had once been a couple and still lived together in an apartment" from the Shepherd's Bush area of ​​west London, she added. Investigators also found remains of the bodies of the two victims there.

"Hate crime"

The case was initially classified as a "hate crime", in accordance with procedural rules, but the first elements of the investigation "do not suggest that there was a homophobic motive", said Andy Valentine, a police official, quoted in the press release . According to authorities, the two victims had no close family. But other parents were identified and contacted.

The two men had hosted and knew Yostin Andres Mosquera, the 24-year-old Colombian man arrested on Saturday and then charged Monday morning for this double murder. He was brought before a London court, Wimbledon Magistrate's Court, and remanded in custody.

Last Wednesday night, police discovered two suitcases containing human remains on the famous Clifton Bridge in Bristol.

Officers were dispatched to the scene after receiving a report of a man with a suitcase acting suspiciously on the Clifton Suspension Bridge ;quot;. But this man, the suspect now arrested, had left the scene before their arrival.