Breaking Bad-obsessed ex-City worker accused of Grindr murder told cops SATAN told him: ‘You must kill’
The policewoman who found PC Gordon Semple's dismembered body parts in Stefano Brizzi's bath has described the gruesome discovery
A FORMER City worker accused of murdering and dismembering a policeman at a drug-fuelled sex party told cops Satan told him: "You must kill".
Stefano Brizzi, 50, repeatedly told officers Satan told him to kill when taken into Lewisham police station after officers found the policeman's chopped up body parts in his flat.
The "Breaking Bad-obsessed Satanist" was reportedly anxious as he had made plans for some more men to come round to his flat for sex the following day.
In a taped exchange played to the jury, an officer asks Brizzi tells the officer: "I've always been against murder. I was out of my mind, because I must have been out of my mind.
He tells the custody sergeant he has HIV and is Hep C positive, and when asked if he has any injuries he replies: "I have cuts to my hands because of cutting the corpse."
When asked is he had any mental health problems, he says: "I wonder if I do, I started to use crystal meth in 2013 and now I hear voices such as Satan."
Brizzi said he had visited a psychiatrist and a psychologist in 2015 after being sacked from his job at Morgan Stanley.
Met police officer PC Helen Savage depicted the "surreal scene" at Stefano Brizzi's home after he allegedly murdered PC Gordon Semple, 59, and dismembered his body.
Crystal meth addict Brizzi is accused of murdering and the cop and attempting to eat some of his remains after organising a drug-fuelled sex party on Grindr.
PC Semple's body wasn't discovered until cops were alerted to the "smell of death" coming from the Peabody Trust Estate in Southwark on April 7 - days after the pair met.
Some of the officers remains were found dissolving in a bath of acid, while other parts were found in Brizzi's bin and in the communal estate bins, the Old Bailey heard.
One of PC Semple's severed feet was found by a member of the public on the south side of the river and the Italian-born "Satanist" had even tried to cook one of PC Semple's legs in the oven.
PC Savage, who searched Brizzi's flat with colleague PC Charlotte Edwards, described the scene that greeted her as "surreal".
She said: "It was a deliberate decision not to ask him what had happened but he started volunteering information.
"He said the male he had killed was called Lee and he had met that gentleman on Grindr.
"He said he invited Lee to his address and Lee had travelled from Blackfriars before arriving.
"Once Lee had got to the address, a guy called Gary was texting Lee on his iPhone.
"Then Lee said to Mr Brizzi that he was recording everything - Mr Brizzi said this made him feel uncomfortable and that he might be being 'set up'.
"He went on to say that once he had killed Lee he had been going through his things and that's when he found his police badge.
"He said the way that Lee was behaving made him uncomfortable and he felt he was possibly being set up - he said the Met police officer was actually called Gordon."
RELATED STORIES
Brizzi then told the officer he put some body parts in a bag and dumped them in a quiet place in the river.
He said he dumped the police badge and PC Semple's other belongings in a sewer in Bermondsey.
PC Savage said: "It was a very surreal incident so I was trying to clarify everything to myself.
"He said the male was fat - said he was about 50 years old, white with a baldish head and blue eyes."
The officer, who was the first to find PC Semple's remains in bin bags in Brizzi's bathroom, needed medical treatment for chemical burns to her wrist after coming into contact with the concoction in the bath.
Brizzi was not arrested until backup arrived to keep the situation calm, PC Savage said.
Before the alleged murder, Brizzi and PC Semple had been trying to persuade other gay men in the area to join them for a "Chemsex" party, jurors heard.
Only one man agreed to join them, but was sent away by Brizzi via intercom who told him: "We're having a situation here. Someone fell ill but we're taking care of it. So our party is cancelled."
It's thought he arrived at the very moment Brizzi was strangling PC Semple
In the days after the alleged murder, Brizzi bought a haul of hardware including a set of saws, metal sheeting and some large buckets to help him dispose of the body.
After a few days, his neighbours started to complain of the overwhelming stench coming from the flat.
The black bin liners were found to contain mounds of flesh, a human pelvis, a hand and part of a spine.
Police found several notes around the flat referring to the devil with messages like "Satan I call you forth," as well as a copy of the Satanic bible.
Brizzi was reportedly obsessed with hit US TV series Breaking Bad – in one episode a murder victim is dissolved in a bath of acid.
He initially admitted the killing, saying "I promised the devil I would kill at the first chance," but now claims PC Semple died during a sex game involving strangling.
PC Semple, from Greenhithe, Dartford, was reported missing by Mr Meeks on Friday 1 April after he failed to come home from work.
The officer, originally from Inverness, Scotland, had worked in banking before joining the Metropolitan Police.
Brizzi, of the Peabody Estate Trust, Southwark, southeast London, denies murder.
He admits obstructing the coroner in his duty by dismembering PC Semple's body in order to dispose of it.
The trial, which is expected to last three weeks, continues.
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368