A murderer who was jailed for killing a Metropolitan Police officer and trying to dissolve his body in acid has died in prison.<\/p>\n
Stefano Brizzi, 51, was sentenced to life in prison in 2016 for murdering PC Gordon Semple<\/a> and was ordered to serve at least 24 years in jail.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed Brizzi, an HMP Belmarsh prisoner, died in custody on Sunday.<\/p>\n His trial was told he had tried to eat his victim’s flesh.<\/p>\n Brizzi denied trying to cannibalise parts of PC Semple, from Greenhithe in Kent, by cooking and then biting into a rib.<\/p>\n But at his sentencing, the prosecution said an expert odontologist had since confirmed that even though Brizzi claimed not to remember it, he had in fact tried to eat flesh.<\/p>\n He was caught when neighbours reported a foul smell coming from his flat in south London.<\/p>\n The pair met on the dating app Grindr<\/a> and at his trial Brizzi claimed PC Semple, 59, had died during a “sex game gone wrong”.<\/p>\n Jurors did not believe him and found Brizzi guilty of murder by a majority of 10-2 after five days of deliberation.<\/p>\n The court was told Brizzi was a fan of the US TV show Breaking Bad in which the protagonists dissolve a rival drug dealer in a bath filled with acid.<\/p>\n When investigators visited Brizzi’s flat in south London they found “globules” of flesh floating in the bath, plus bags containing bones and pools of human fat in the oven.<\/p>\n In a statement the MoJ said: “HMP Belmarsh prisoner Stefano Brizzi died in custody on Sunday.<\/p>\n “As with all deaths in custody there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”<\/p>\n The MoJ has not indicated a cause of death and said that would be determined by a coroner. No date has been given for an inquest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"