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By Les Kennedy
September 19 2002
A man has undergone microsurgery to try and reattach his little finger, penis, scrotum and left hand - all which he cut off in an alleged drug-induced act of self-mutilation.
Police said the man was believed to be high on amphetamines. He attacked himself with a large kitchen carving knife during an argument with his wife at a home in the northern NSW town of Inverell.
The bizarre act of self-mutilation was witnessed by two ambulance officers who were called to the home at 2.30pm on Tuesday by the distraught woman after the man, aged 38, initially cut off the little finger on his right hand. Inverell police Inspector Dave Harrington said when ambulance officers arrived at the home, the woman ran from the house followed by the man, who was still armed with the knife.
The man then cut off his scrotum and penis before lopping off his left hand at the wrist-joint, just as Inspector Harrington and six other police officers arrived at the scene.
It took all seven officers to hold the man down while the ambulance officers applied pressure bandages to stem the bleeding.
Inspector Harrington said that had the ambulance officers not been on hand the man might have died from massive blood loss. 'It is one of the worst things I've seen in 16 years,' Inspector Harrington said. 'Police have reason to believe he was affected by amphetamines at the time.
'The man was taken under police restraint by ambulance to the small Inverell Base Hospital, where two local doctors performed emergency surgery while they awaited the arrival of an Air Ambulance plane and a physician with the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.'
Inspector Harrington said officers recovered the severed body parts, which were later packed in ice in the hope they could be reattached with microsurgery.
The body parts accompanied the heavily sedated man on the Air Ambulance flight "
By Les Kennedy
September 19 2002
A man has undergone microsurgery to try and reattach his little finger, penis, scrotum and left hand - all which he cut off in an alleged drug-induced act of self-mutilation.
Police said the man was believed to be high on amphetamines. He attacked himself with a large kitchen carving knife during an argument with his wife at a home in the northern NSW town of Inverell.
The bizarre act of self-mutilation was witnessed by two ambulance officers who were called to the home at 2.30pm on Tuesday by the distraught woman after the man, aged 38, initially cut off the little finger on his right hand. Inverell police Inspector Dave Harrington said when ambulance officers arrived at the home, the woman ran from the house followed by the man, who was still armed with the knife.
The man then cut off his scrotum and penis before lopping off his left hand at the wrist-joint, just as Inspector Harrington and six other police officers arrived at the scene.
It took all seven officers to hold the man down while the ambulance officers applied pressure bandages to stem the bleeding.
Inspector Harrington said that had the ambulance officers not been on hand the man might have died from massive blood loss. 'It is one of the worst things I've seen in 16 years,' Inspector Harrington said. 'Police have reason to believe he was affected by amphetamines at the time.
'The man was taken under police restraint by ambulance to the small Inverell Base Hospital, where two local doctors performed emergency surgery while they awaited the arrival of an Air Ambulance plane and a physician with the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.'
Inspector Harrington said officers recovered the severed body parts, which were later packed in ice in the hope they could be reattached with microsurgery.
The body parts accompanied the heavily sedated man on the Air Ambulance flight "
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