A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe.

David Phyall’s severed head was found beside the power tool inside his housing association flat shortly after receiving his eviction notice.

Detectives were today investigating the possibility that the 58-year-old killed himself rather than leave his home of eight years.

He was the last resident living on an estate earmarked for demolition. All 71 surrounding flats were empty.

Paramedics and police made the gruesome find after receiving a 999 call.

An inquest is now being carried out into the exact cause of death and what had happened to Mr Phyall, described as ‘vulnerable’, beforehand.

It is understood police are not treating his death as suspicious.

Man cuts off own head with chainsaw after flat is earmarked to be bulldozed by developers | Mail Online

I always wondered why cnredd had the following smiley icon. Maybe it's for occasions like this?

Ummm...

Were they expecting to find it a few hundred feet away?...

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Bloody hell! This is one of the most shocking suicide reports I've ever read! Poor wretch. He must have been more than desperate to take such a gruesome way out. They say that suicide is a coward's way out, but this bloke must have had the balls of an elephant to start up a chain saw and proceed to sever his own head!!!