Police in Australia were waiting on Thursday to interview a man who lopped off his penis, scrotum and left hand in front of his wife, police and ambulance officers in the driveway of his suburban Sydney home.
The 38-year-old was believed to be high on drugs when he began dismembering himself on Tuesday during a domestic argument in his home in Inverell, New South Wales.
His wife rang emergency services after he cut off the little finger on his right hand with a kitchen knife.
Police and ambulance officers arrived to find him in the driveway clutching the knife and bleeding heavily. They said they were aghast when he cut off his scrotum and penis before lopping off his left hand at the wrist.
”It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in 16 years,” Inspector Dave Harrington said. ”Police have reason to believe he was affected by amphetamines at the time.”
It took seven police officers to hold the man down while ambulance officers applied pressure bandages to stop the man from bleeding to death.
He is in hospital in Sydney, where surgeons attempted to reattach the four body parts. – Sapa-DPA