Social worker accused of strangling and dismembering gay cop denies murder

An Italian social worker accused of strangling a policeman to death after meeting him on gay dating app Grindr has denied murder. Stefano Brizzi, 50, is accused of killing 59-year-old PC Gordon Semple before dismembering his body and dumping the pieces in the communal bins of his block of flats in south London. Police were alerted after neighbours complained of a ‘smell of death’ a week after the officer disappeared. PC Semple, from Greenhithe, Dartford, was reported missing by his…