Gruesome details emerged
Thursday in a murder trial that has just begun against Stefano
Brizzi, a 50-year-old British social worker and former merchant
banker of Italian origins.
Brizzi, who was said to be "obsessed" with TV serial
Breaking Bad stands accused of killing policeman Gordon Semple
in early April and dismembering his body and dissolving some of
it after meeting him via the gay dating app Grindr.
The Guardian reports that prosecutor Crispin Aylett told
jurors that Brizzi had told police that he had "tried to
dissolve the body...I've killed a police officer".
Aylett also claimed that Brizzi had said "I killed him last
week. I met him on Grindr and I killed him. Satan told me to."
He added that jurors would need "strong stomachs" during
the hearing.
The social worker claims he killed Semple by accident
during a drug-fuelled sex game that went wrong in the
defendant's home in Southwark, on the southern banks of the
Thames.
Aylett told jurors how investigators had managed to connect
Brizzi to the crime after Semple's disappearance was reported to
the police by the 59-year-old Scotland Yard's companion: by the
nauseating smell emanating from Brizzi's apartment.
The investigators found the victim's corpse cut into parts
and put into sacks, some of which had been dissolved in acid in
what appears to be an attempt to hide the crime, the court
heard.
The prosecutor noted that Brizzi was obsessed with the
television series Breaking Bad, in which the main character, a
crystal meth producer, kills a rival and dissolves his body in
acid.
Brizzi is a crystal meth user who admitted his
out-of-control use had lost him a job at investment bank Morgan
Stanley.
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