Breaking Bad obsessed Satanist guilty of murdering former Inverness man in London and dissolving body in acid bath
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A 'BREAKING Bad' obsessed Satanist is today facing a life sentence for strangling and dismembering a former Inverness man then dissolving his remains in an acid bath.
Stefano Brizzi (50) boiled and roasted parts of police officer Gordon Semple's body and attempted to eat them with chopsticks.
But Brizzi could not bring himself to consume the body and turned to a method featured in the cult TV show when he tried to make the parts vanish in the bathtub.
The killer, who worked as a web developer for merchant bank Morgan Stanley, had met the 59-year-old victim for a S&M session through the gay dating app Grindr.
PC Semple, who served with the Metropolitan Police in London and was on duty when he arranged to meet his killer, was reported missing by his partner on April 2, sparking a massive manhunt.
Police were alerted to a 'smell of death' coming from Brizzi's flat on the Peabody Trust Estate in southeast London, on April 7.
Brizzi told police: '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.'
Today a jury of found Brizzi guilty of murder by majority verdict after deliberating for 30 hours and 46 minutes.
Brizzi, who earlier admitted obstructing a coroner by chopping up PC Semple's body, did not show a flicker of emotion as he was convicted.
Although originally from Inverness PC Semple had lived with partner Gary Meeks in Greenhithe, Kent for 25 years.
- Read more in tomorrow's Inverness Courier.
