(
Reproduced from Mumbai Mirror 16th July 2008 pg 21)
Man cuts off
own head with chainsaw after losing eviction fight!
58-yr-old David Phyall just didnt
want to move from his block of flats in Hampshire
LONDON: A 58-year-old man in Hampshire, UK, severed
his own head using a chainsaw, after losing an
eviction fight.
Police sources have revealed
that David Phyall switched on the saw, and put a
timer on the socket. He even had a cocktail of pills
to knock himself out, and then rested the saw on his
neck. When the timer went off, the saw sliced through
his neck in an instant. David committed suicide some
10 days ago, and it was his father John who first
discovered his body.
Policemen and paramedics who
reached the site said that they found Davids
bloodsoaked corpse. What greeted them was a horrific
sight. The head was severed and there was a
considerable amount of blood. He seemed to have gone
into a great amount of detail to end it all, a police
source said.
David had fought for several
years to prevent developers bulldozing the block of
72 flats he rented in, and replacing them. He was
last to leave after all the other flats were boarded
up in Bishopstoke, Southampton, added the report.
The paper even said that an
eviction notice from housing association Atlantic
Housing Ltd might have been the last straw. We had
given him 11 other offers of accommodation but he
rejected them, basically because he did not want a
property owned by us, said a spokesman for Atlantic.
Ron Turtle, residents
association chairman, said: They offered him several
places that were similar but he just didnt want
to move. They had to go to court. It is a very sad
situation. AGENCIES