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Last tenant 'found decapitated'
BBC online, 14 Jul 08
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A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment.
David Phyall, 50, was the last tenant at the Atlantic Housing Ltd housing association flats in Eastleigh.
His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".
An inquest was opened and adjourned at Winchester Coroner's Court on Friday.
A spokesman for the coroner said: "As far as we know nobody else was involved.
"There's nothing suspicious about the death. It was in his flat on Bodmin Road.
"The place is all due to be redeveloped. He was the last resident left there. He lived there alone."
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman confirmed his death was not suspicious.
"We were called to the address on Bodmin Road on 5 July at approximately 4.20pm to a non-suspicious death," she said.
Man chops off head with chainsaw
Sydney Morning Herald (AUS), 9 May 07
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A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.
The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emergency call, apparently from the dying father, had been broken off in mid-sentence.
Alf Willwacher, a senior prosecutor, said an electric chainsaw was next to the son's body.
"We do not believe any third party was involved,'' he said.
Neighbours said the father and son had been reclusive since the death of the mother, allegedly by suicide, several years ago.
DPA
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Last tenant 'found decapitated'
BBC online, 14 Jul 08
Article link
A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment.
David Phyall, 50, was the last tenant at the Atlantic Housing Ltd housing association flats in Eastleigh.
His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".
An inquest was opened and adjourned at Winchester Coroner's Court on Friday.
A spokesman for the coroner said: "As far as we know nobody else was involved.
"There's nothing suspicious about the death. It was in his flat on Bodmin Road.
"The place is all due to be redeveloped. He was the last resident left there. He lived there alone."
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman confirmed his death was not suspicious.
"We were called to the address on Bodmin Road on 5 July at approximately 4.20pm to a non-suspicious death," she said.
Man chops off head with chainsaw
Sydney Morning Herald (AUS), 9 May 07
Article link
A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.
The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emergency call, apparently from the dying father, had been broken off in mid-sentence.
Alf Willwacher, a senior prosecutor, said an electric chainsaw was next to the son's body.
"We do not believe any third party was involved,'' he said.
Neighbours said the father and son had been reclusive since the death of the mother, allegedly by suicide, several years ago.
DPA
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