A 44-year-old man,Mark Goddard, has allegedly cut his own hand off with a homemade guillotine after enduring years of excruciating nerve pain.
According to reports, Goddard said he resorted to such drastic action because hospital staff had refused to treat the pains he suffered for over 16 years following a motorcycle crash.
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| * Goddard describes the pain ‘like having continuous cramp and toothache with someone stamping on the part that hurts’
"I should not have to go to such extremes to get my pain stopped. There was an alternative – and that was having it done properly in hospital,’ he explained.
Unfortunately for Goddard, who is from Newton Abbot in Devon, the homemade device only partially severed his wrist and he had to finish off the job with a knife.
He then threw the hand onto a bonfire in his garden so that surgeons could not sew it back on.
 
* Mr Goddard threw his hand in a bucket of flames to ensure medics could not sew it back on
"There should never have been any need for me to do this. It would have spared so much distress all round – but it was the only way. At least it will give me and my family our lives back,’ he added.
Goddard’s pains still continue and he has threatened the NHS with a deadline for treatment otherwise he will chop his arm off at the elbow.
After being rushed to hospital, it was estimated that the former mechanic lost two pints of blood.
* Goddard only lost two pints of blood before paramedics came to his rescue
In order to defend his action, Goddard stated that he had undergone several psychiatric examinations since his difficulties started – and had always been given a clean bill of health.
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