Suicide decapitated himself with
nylon rope
Press Association
Saturday August 16, 2003
The Guardian
A shopworker who
had feelings for a fellow worker which were not returned decapitated
himself, the Bridgend, south Wales, coroner recorded yesterday.
David Wackett, 25, tied a nylon rope around his neck and to a lamp-post and drove off in his car, the court heard. As he drove away the rope tightened, tearing his head from his body.
Nadine Jones, for whom Mr Wackett had a "soft spot", saw his car and thought it had crashed. She telephoned the B&Q store where they worked and other staff went to see what had happened.
One, Gareth West, said in a statement: "I saw a body in the driver's seat with its arms by its side. There was no head attached to the body at all. The body had a seatbelt on."
A receipt for a rope, bought from B&Q with a staff discount two days earlier, was found, along with a suicide note.
Ms Jones's statement read: "I had no physical feelings for him and classed him as a friend. I think his feelings had intensified over recent weeks."
The coroner, Philip Walters, said that the method used was described on
a website but there was no evidence to suggest that Mr Wackett had ever
looked at it. "I find it quite incredible that websites like this which
tell you how to commit suicide in so many different ways should be allowed
to exist," he said.