Cab Driver Cuts His Own Head Off In Suicide
7:57am UK, Saturday July 11, 2009
A taxi driver has decapitated himself in his black cab in what appears to have been a gruesome suicide.
Police are treating the man's death as "non-suspicious"
The man, believed to be in his 30s, tied a rope to a lamppost and the other end around his neck before driving off from the spot in Southwark, southeast London, yesterday.
His body was found by police slumped in the car - with his severed head yards away.
Police are treating the driver's death as suicide and are trying to trace his next of kin.
Officers were called at 12.40am yesterday to the horrific scene in Great Suffolk Street, where the car had crashed into a pillar.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Officers attended and the driver was found dead inside the vehicle.
"The death is being treated as non-suspicious."
Officers are keen to determine if the dead man was a genuine black-cab driver.
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