Police officer's killer found dead in cell claimed he had no plan to use noose, inquest told

A man convicted of murdering a police officer before dismembering his body and trying to dissolve it in a bath of acid wove himself a ligature a few months before he was found hanging in his cell, an inquest has heard.

Stefano Brizzi, 50, was found suspended from a light fitting in his cell at HMP Belmarsh on February 5 last year, less than three months into his 24-year sentence for killing Pc Gordon Semple after meeting him on gay dating app Grindr.