Murder trial is told accused 'ate part of victim's body with chopsticks'
A SATANIST who strangled a gay Scottish police officer to death during a drug-fuelled sex game may have used chopsticks to eat part of the body, a court has been told.
PC Gordon Semple's DNA was found on the chopsticks after Stefano Brizzi had tried to cook parts of his dismembered corpse, it was alleged at his trial.
The Italian national is accused of murdering the Inverness-born officer after meeting up with him on a gay dating website.
According to the prosecution, the pair met for "hot, dirty, sleazy" sex before Brizzi, an obsessive fan of the hit US TV show Breaking Bad, fatally attacked the 59-year-old.
It is claimed that after killing the Metropolitan Police officer, Brizzi dismembered the body and then tried to dissolve some parts in an acid bath.
Crispin Aylett QC for the Crown told the Old Bailey on the second day of the trial yesterday that he would "suggest it would be open to you to find that the defendant cooked part of his body and then ate it".
PC Semple's DNA was found on a chopping board, the blade of a blender and the inside of a silver cooking pot during a search of the defendant's flat in London.
A tea strainer was found in a bin outside, which was covered in PC Semple's blood.
Mr Aylett said it all "leads inexorably back to the kitchen. The handle of the oven was bloodstained. Inside the oven, there was a pool of fat and grease. That contained a DNA profile of Gordon Semple.
"It does not end there. From human remains that were recovered from a bin in the kitchen. On the chopsticks on the draining board, which were bloodstained, Gordon Semple's DNA was also recovered."
There was definitely a leg which I had tried to roast
Officers called to Brizzi's flat near London Bridge in April of this year were struck by an "overpowering smell of chemicals combined with that of rotting meat".
The jury was told that on the floor there were buckets full of liquid, two black bin liners which appeared to be full and a perforated metal sheet "stained with blood".
One officer opened a bin bag and saw "what she believed to be a human pelvis".
A paramedic, Marianne Hardie discovered a human hand and part of the spine in another bag while another officer stated that when they went to arrest Brizzi, he told them: "I have HIV".
He then claimed: "I spoke to Satan and he was telling me to kill, kill, kill and I agreed at the first opportunity."
A subsequent search of his computer led them to recover references to pages such as "666 Black Sun", "Bible of C***", and "The Satanic bible e-book".
The Italian later told police that he had been unable to dissolve the body, as "the chemicals needed to be heated to 300 degrees and he could not get them hot enough".
During one interview, he was asked where the body parts were and replied: "If you look at what's left over at home ... I think there's still a foot and a hand. I believe there was a leg. Yes, definitely there was a leg which I had tried to roast as well.
"But the head is still in my house, although it is cracked, the cranium is cracked. The chest was the hardest thing to crack."
In one episode of Breaking Bad, which tells f a chemistry teacher who becomes a crystal meth dealer, the main character disposes of a body by dissolving it in an acid bath.
Brizzi, from Southwark, south London, denies murder and the trial continues.
