Sex murder accused ‘just wanted fun’

AN ITALIAN accused of strangling a Scots policeman, chopping him up and trying to dissolve his body in an acid bath after a sex and drugs session yesterday said he had just wanted to have ‘fun’.

Stefano Brizzi, 50, who worked as a web developer for Morgan Stanley, allegedly murdered PC Gordon Semple, 59, after organising a meeting on gay dating app Grindr.

Brizzi then tried to dispose of part of the body in a bath of acid – in a scene inspired by a scene from his favourite TV show Breaking Bad.

Giving evidence yesterday, Brizzi admitted chopping up the body, but insisted he did not deliberately kill PC Semple.

When he asked if he had any ill will towards him, he said: ‘No, I just wanted to have some fun. I just wanted to have sex.’

PC Semple’s body was not discovered until seven days later when police were alerted to a ‘smell of death’ coming from the Peabody Trust Estate in Southwark, London, on April 7.

Brizzi initially confessed to killing PC Semple, claiming Satan had told him to ‘kill, kill, kill’. He said he had been battling his addiction to crystal meth for about two years before the killing, and had been forced to quit his job.

PC Semple, from Greenhithe, Dartford, was reported missing by his partner Gary Meeks on Friday April 1 after he failed to come home from work.

The officer, originally from Inverness, had worked in banking before joining the Metropolitan Police. Brizz denies murder. He admits obstructing the coroner in his duty by dismembering PC Semple’s body in order to dispose of it.

The trial continues.