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| Stefano Brizzi guilty of PC Gordon Semple's murder | Stefano Brizzi guilty of PC Gordon Semple's murder |
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| A man who strangled an off-duty Met Police officer before trying to dissolve his body in an acid-filled bath has been found guilty of murder. | |
| Stefano Brizzi, from south London, admitted chopping up Gordon Semple, 59, when he was high on crystal meth. | Stefano Brizzi, from south London, admitted chopping up Gordon Semple, 59, when he was high on crystal meth. |
| The Italian national claimed PC Semple, who he met on dating app Grindr, died accidentally during a sex game. | The Italian national claimed PC Semple, who he met on dating app Grindr, died accidentally during a sex game. |
| Jurors at the Old Bailey convicted the 50-year-old on a 10-2 majority after five days of deliberations. | Jurors at the Old Bailey convicted the 50-year-old on a 10-2 majority after five days of deliberations. |
| He will be sentenced on 9 December. | He will be sentenced on 9 December. |
| The former Morgan Stanley IT developer claimed Mr Semple, from Greenhithe in Kent, had died on 1 April during a "sex game gone wrong" when a dog leash he was wearing had slipped. | |
| However, the court heard it would have taken far longer for him to be strangled than Brizzi's account suggested. | However, the court heard it would have taken far longer for him to be strangled than Brizzi's account suggested. |
| In the days after his killing, he was filmed on CCTV buying buckets, a perforated metal sheet and cleaning products from a DIY store. He then started to dismember the body and strip the flesh. | |
| Six days after his death, police officers found PC Semple's partially-dissolved body parts in the bath when they visited Brizzi's flat to investigate reports of a putrid smell emanating from his home. | |
| Killing highlights dark world of hook-up apps | |
| The court heard Brizzi was obsessed with the American TV show Breaking Bad in which the protagonists Walter White and Jesse Pinkman dissolve a rival drug dealer in a bathtub filled with acid. | The court heard Brizzi was obsessed with the American TV show Breaking Bad in which the protagonists Walter White and Jesse Pinkman dissolve a rival drug dealer in a bathtub filled with acid. |
| When police visited Brizzi's flat on the Peabody Estate in south London, he told them how he thought he was "getting away with it" and was planning to finish disposing of the body later that day. | When police visited Brizzi's flat on the Peabody Estate in south London, he told them how he thought he was "getting away with it" and was planning to finish disposing of the body later that day. |
| The court was played a video of a police interview in which Brizzi can be heard saying: "As you can see this man was a very big man and all I have left is two buckets." | The court was played a video of a police interview in which Brizzi can be heard saying: "As you can see this man was a very big man and all I have left is two buckets." |
| Police found "globules" of flesh floating in the bath, bags containing bones and a part of PC Semple's head, and pools of human fat in the oven. | |
| The court heard there was evidence in the kitchen that Brizzi had chopped up the Inverness-born officer with a variety of utensils and may have even used chopsticks to eat morsels of cooked meat. | |
| Following his arrest, Brizzi admitted killing and trying to dissolve the body of a policeman because "Satan told me to". | |
| He also told police he had "chucked" some of PC Semple's body into the Thames and thrown away his police badge and belongings. | |
| A human foot was later found by a member of Thames Mudlark Club near Bermondsey Wall. |