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| Police killing cannibal Stefano Brizzi dies in prison | |
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| A murderer who was jailed for killing a Metropolitan Police officer and trying to dissolve his body in acid has died in prison. | |
| Stefano Brizzi, 51, was sentenced to life in prison in 2016 for murdering PC Gordon Semple and was ordered to serve at least 24 years in jail. | |
| The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed Brizzi, an HMP Belmarsh prisoner, died in custody on Sunday. | |
| His trial was told he had tried to eat his victim's flesh. | His trial was told he had tried to eat his victim's flesh. |
| Brizzi denied trying to cannibalise parts of PC Semple, from Greenhithe in Kent, by cooking and then biting into a rib. | Brizzi denied trying to cannibalise parts of PC Semple, from Greenhithe in Kent, by cooking and then biting into a rib. |
| 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. | 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. |
| He was caught when neighbours reported a foul smell coming from his flat in south London. | |
| The pair met on the dating app Grindr and at his trial Brizzi claimed PC Semple, 59, had died during a "sex game gone wrong". | |
| Jurors did not believe him and found Brizzi guilty of murder by a majority of 10-2 after five days of deliberation. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| In a statement the MoJ said: "HMP Belmarsh prisoner Stefano Brizzi died in custody on Sunday. | |
| "As with all deaths in custody there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman." | |
| 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. |