A MAN chopped off his own head with a chainsaw in an intricate plan involving a timer, snooker table and sticky tape because he didn't want to get kicked out of his home, his inquest has heard.

David Phyall, 50, went ahead with the suicide because he was "irrationally opposed" to being moved out, a British inquest heard.

He tied the Black & Decker tool to a leg of a snooker table in his lounge with string, taped up the on button and plugged it into a timer.

Mr Phyall then lay down under the snooker table face up and placed the chainsaw against his neck, Winchester Coroner’s Court heard.

A piece of the tool’s cardboard box initially cushioned the blades from his neck.

The hearing heard the timer, which is usually used to turn lights on and off, was fixed to start up the chainsaw for 15 minutes.

Disturbingly, the plan went off without a hitch.

Britain's The Sun newspaper reports his elderly parents raised the alarm when they could not contact their son in the council flat in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, on July 5.

Police broke in and found Mr Phyall in the lounge with blood spattered on the walls, floor and a cabinet.

He told the hearing: “The electric chainsaw was embedded in his neck. The blade was approximately three quarters through his neck."

The hearing heard Mr Phyall's block of flats was to be demolished. He had refused 11 offers of alternative accommodation.

Eventually it had gone to court to repossess the property.

Central Hampshire deputy coroner Simon Burge said: "In the 15 years I have been sitting as a deputy coroner, this is the most bizarre case I can recall.

"It is an appalling way to take one’s life but that is what happened in this case.

"He thought through how he was going to commit suicide very carefully. He went to a great deal of trouble."

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Originally published as Man cuts off own head with chainsaw