[bloodrayne]

Man Sliced Own Neck With Chainsaw

A pensioner found her cancer-stricken husband dead - with a chainsaw embedded in his neck.

Retired businessman John Lloyd Jones was fighting tumours, pathologist Mark Atkinson told an inquest yesterday.

Depressed by ill-health, the 77-year-old killed himself with an electric chainsaw at his Flintshire home. His wife Norma, who realised he was missing from bed, discovered him lying on a workshop floor on September 16, after a search.

A policeman found the machine embedded in his neck.

Mr Atkinson said the wound to Mr Jones' neck severed the major blood vessels but not the cervical vertebra.

Earlier, the pathologist told the Flint inquest Mr Jones of T£ Fry, Llanasa, had two cancerous tumours, one of which was probably inoperable.

One was on his lungs, the other - on his colon - had spread into the abdomen.

They were "two significant malignancies" although there would have been no obvious symptoms other than Mr Jones feeling run down and tired.

North east Wales coroner John Hughes, recording a verdict of suicide, said: "I am satisfied this was a deliberate act.

"From the details of what he did, it cannot have been an accident."