'SATAN TOLD ME DO IT'

Breaking Bad obsessed social worker ‘strangled on duty cop, chopped him up and melted his body in acid after meeting him on Grindr’

A MAN obsessed with Breaking Bad strangled and dismembered an on-duty cop’s body he met through Grindr before trying to dissolve it in acid.

Stefano Brizzi has been accused of strangling Pc Gordon Semple to death, leaving the body to dissolve into “globules of flesh”.

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Pc Gordon Semple was on duty when he went to meet Stefano Brizzi, with it now alleged the cop was strangled to death during the Grindr date

Police found the stomach-churning scene after neighbours complained of a “revolting smell” coming from the Essex flat, with Brizzi allegedly telling officers: “I’ve tried to dissolve the body … I’ve killed a police officer. I killed him last week.

“I met him on Grindr and I killed him. Satan told me to.”

Jurors at the Old Bailey heard the pair had organised to meet up for “hot, dirty, sleazy” sex before Brizzi, 50, is alleged to have throttled his victim.

Stefano Brizzi, an Italian social worker, allegedly killed the cop and tried to dissolve his body in acid

Brizzi, who shared an interest in sado-masochistic sex with his victim Semple, 59, has now pleaded not guilty to murder but has admitted to a second charge of obstructing a coroner in the execution of duty between March 31 and April 8 2016.

Jurors were told that Brizzi, who was addited to crystal meth, was now not claiming a psychiatric defence, with the alleged murderer instead claiming Pc Semple died accidentally during a “sex game gone wrong”.

Opening the trial, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told jurors the case called for “broad minds and strong stomachs”.

The court heard Pc Semple had been in a relationship but was “sexually promiscuous” and used Grindr for “extreme” encounters of “domination, bondage and much else besides”.

Semple had headed to the Brizzi’s flat on the Peabody Estate in south London for sex on April 1, with the men trying to invite a number of others for a “sex party where drugs would be available”.

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said one man, referred to as CD in court, was interested in the party and headed to the flat but was told by Brizzi that another man was sick and not to come in.

He said: “When CD pressed the entry buzzer, someone who can only have been the defendant replied over the intercom ‘We are having a situation here. Someone fell ill but we’re taking care of it. So our party is cancelled’. CD turned around and went home.”

He said that CD must have arrived at the very moment Pc Semple was meeting his own death inside the flat.

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Stefano Brizzi in the dock at the Old Bailey when he appeared in court in April

PC Semple’s last communication on Grindr was about 7.04pm, with his partner trying to call him about 20 minutes later but not getting a response.

He later reported him missing.

The court heard Brizzi’s Grindr account boasted of a taste for “boots, feet, puppy training, bondage, spanking, whipping, wax, pegs, nipple play, TT (tit torture) CBT (cock and ball torture), watersports (involving urination) and scat (involving excrement)”,

The court heard that the man often tried to shock his addict support group with his obsession with devil worship and penchant for having sex on top of a pentagram.

Attending the meetings sporadically, he told the group he was keen on domination, pain and Satanic rituals.

He was also obsessed with the hit TV show Breaking Bad, with the show’s main character Walter White starting to produce crystal meth.

In one episode, the body of a murder victim is dissolved in a bath of acid, the court heard.
The trial continues.