An Italian national living in London, Stefano Brizzi has been found guilty of the murder of a policeman that he met via dating app Grindr.

Gordon Semple, 59, was reported missing by his partner, Gary Meeks, on 1 April. He vanished after attending a meeting in Southwark, London.

On the 7 April, police visited Brizzi’s flat, also in Southwark, after a neighbor complained about a ‘revolting smell’.

They discovered a bath tub full of acid and ‘globules of flesh’.

Brizzi, 50, claimed to police that Semple had visited him for sado-masochistic sex after they made contact via Grindr, but that things had gone wrong.

At his trial, jurors heard how Brizzi had lost his job with US investment bank Morgan Stanley because of his use of crystal meth. He admitted to police that he had chopped up Semple’s body while high on the drug.

Mr Brizzi denied murder but admitted a second charge of obstructing a coroner in the execution of duty.

The jury retired to consider their verdict on 7 November. This afternoon they returned a verdict of guilty of murder by a 10-2 majority.

Brizzi will be sentenced on 9 December.