On 10 July 2024, two suitcases containing human remains were found on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, in the South West of England. The suitcases were found by police after reports of a man acting suspiciously. A manhunt soon ensued, with police searching for one person in connection with the remains. The person was identified as Colombian national Yostin Andres Mosquera. Police arrested him on 13 July 2024 at Bristol Temple Meads railway station. [1] [2] [3]
On 15 July, Mosquera appeared in court charged with murdering two men aged 62 and 71, between 8 and 10 July in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 17 July. [4] At the court hearing on 17 July, he was charged with two counts of murder and remanded in prison to appear at a trial set for 14 April 2025. [5]
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll bridge, the income from which provides funds for its maintenance. The bridge is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a Grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.
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PC Sharon Beshenivsky was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot and killed by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005, becoming the seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty. Her colleague, PC Teresa Milburn, was seriously injured in the same incident. Milburn had joined the force less than two years earlier; Beshenivsky had served only nine months as a Constable in the force at the time of her death, having been a Community Support Officer before.
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Events in the year 2024 in Colombia.
Events of the year 2024 in England.