London, November 20 : A 50-year-old British man beheaded himself using a chainsaw because he did not want to give up his repossessed home.

Winchester Coroner''s Court was told that David Phyall tied the chainsaw to a leg of a snooker table in his sitting room using string, taped up the on button, and plugged it into a timer.

He then laid face up under the snooker table putting the chainsaw against his neck, the court heard.

Phyall had had a small amount to drink, but he had not taken any drugs.

He used a piece of the tool''s cardboard box to cushion the blades from his neck, and set the timer to start up the chainsaw for 15 minutes.

London, July 15 : 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 David’s blood-soaked corpse.