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A WEALTHY businessman committed suicide by tying a steel rope to a fence, wrapping it round his neck then speeding off in his car.

The car containing the decapitated body of Tadeusz Szewczek sped off down the street as his head bounced towards his home where his horrified wife was watching.

Police are baffled as to why the 48-year-old, from the village of Jakubow in eastern Poland, wanted to kill himself in such a grisly way.

They said he waited for his wife to come home before taking his own life.

His wife Malgorzata had gone out about two hours before the suicide.

Szewczek's 75-year-old mother Marta said: "I think something went wrong with his marriage recently.

"It seems to me that might be why he killed himself."

Malgorzata is being treated for shock.