Stefano Brizzi strangled PC Gordon Semple and dismembered his body before resorting to cannibalism, prosecution suggests
A man may have cooked and eaten parts of a police officer’s corpse after strangling him, a court has heard.
Stefano Brizzi, 50, is accused of murdering PC Gordon Semple, who had served with the Metropolitan police for 30 years, on 1 April after inviting him round for drug-fuelled sex.
Brizzi admits dismembering and disposing of the 59-year-old police officer’s body, but claims his death was an accident and denies murder.
At the Old Bailey on Friday, the prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said Semple’s DNA was recovered from Brizzi’s oven, a cooking pot and chopsticks found in the flat. Additionally, possible bite marks were found on a rib in the kitchen dustbin and a leg bone showed signs of heat damage, he said.
“It could be seen that the handle of the oven was bloodstained. Inside the oven, there was a pool of fat and grease,” Aylett told the jury. “This was found to contain a DNA profile that matched that of Gordon Semple.”
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