SWANSEA, England - Britain is agog over the particularly gruesome suicide of businessman and gym owner Gerald Mellin, 54, on the roads surrounding his home in Swansea last September 14th. The details of Mellin's death have just come to light as an inquest has concluded the beheading death was in fact a suicide.

The details are shocking. That morning Mellin tied one end of a long rope to a tree in a parking lot and the other around his neck. He then got in the driver seat of his open Aston Martin DB7 roadster and accelerated away onto a main road. When the rope snapped taut, his head was severed clear off his body. A short suicide note was later found in the corpse's pocket.

Mellin, who reportedly had a history of steroid abuse and depression, was going through a contentious divorce from his second wife when he decided to take his own life. He had run up large debts with the intent, his second wife claimed to several British newspapers, of leaving her with nothing.

'He would say suicidal thoughts,' Mirielle Mellin told the BBC, 'but I never actually believed that he would do anything. It was always a cry for help with Gerald. That's why I find it hard to believe this time.'

Considering the extreme nature of the suicide, the former Mrs. Mellin surely isn't alone in her disbelief.