Businessman uses Aston Martin to decapitate himself in horrific suicide

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 8-08-08 | Luke Salkeld

[Renfield]

A businessman decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him, an inquest has heard.

Gerald Mellin, 54, taunted his estranged wife Mirrielle, 33, with threats of suicide.

He even showed her the rope he was going to use, which he kept in the boot of his open-top Aston Martin DB7....

[Renfield]

An Aston Martin DB7 similar to Mr Mellin's

[gov_bean_ counter]

Oh yeah, he really showed her.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Another one at the end of his rope due to divorce ping.

[Andonius_99]

Did you see her picture in the article? She’s really nothing to lose your head over...

[Cyclone59]

He did only in one respect, life insurance doesn’t pay out for suicides.....

[kbennkc]

Would this type of event be reported on Carfax ?

[Ben Reyes]

Is she Middle Eastern?

‘Decapitating himself...’

What’s with these people?

[Snurple]

I guess she wont be a pain in the neck to him anymore.

[Sax]

Mr Mellin owned the gym and sun tanning centre where his wife had worked.

Yeah, worked on her own tan.

[A Texan]

I call dibs on the car.

[SouthDixie]

But, but, but...did the Aston Martin survive is the question?

[N3WBI3]

The Man


And his Wife


"The inquest in Swansea heard that after her husband's death she discovered he had cancelled a life insurance policy which would have paid out to her."

"She said: 'He ran up an extortionate amount of debt. I've got to sell the farmhouse now, just to pay the debts.'"

Like all suicide it was more about hurting the living then ending your own life, though this woman seemed to be really insensitive about the whole thing..

[am452]

He did only in one respect, life insurance doesn’t pay out for suicides.....

Life insurance policies pay for suicides after the policy has been in effect for 2 years.

[paddles]

Jesus H. Christ, Man! Jump in your Aston Martin, stop for a cocktail, and chat up the young lovelies.

You'll forget about that harridan when you're shagging some 19 y/o steel bellied airhead.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ye gahds, she looks like somebody deep-fried Lucy Lawless!

[freedomlover]

The "after" pic won't be quite as tall.

[freedomlover]

He did only in one respect, life insurance doesn’t pay out for suicides.....

Life insurance policies pay for suicides after the policy has been in effect for 2 years.

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They REALLY don’t pay when they have been cancelled.

[A Texan]

I would chose your plan, but it sounds like he screwed his wife one last time by making her sell the farmhouse she was living in.

[never4get]

The inquest in Swansea heard that after her husband's death she discovered he had cancelled a life insurance policy which would have paid out to her. She said: 'He ran up an extortionate amount of debt. I've got to sell the farmhouse now, just to pay the debts.'

While I do not condone his actions, he did make sure she would get nothing from him...alive or dead. Like you pointed our, her actions after his death seem to make you think she just cared about the money.

[J40000]

‘We had split up and been to court.

And then he split up with himself!

[Tijeras_Slim]

She’s got more vitamin D than the entire city of Liverpool!

[wideawake]

Mr Mellin owned the gym and sun tanning centre where his wife had worked as a beautician.

Wow. His wife was really taking advantage of the tanning privileges.

The gym and beauty parts? Not so much.

[Mamzelle]

She was over twenty years younger than he. Of course, all she cared about was the money.

[livius]

What a jerk he was. She probably seemed a little indifferent because, like most suicides, he had been threatening this every time he didn’t get his way. After a while, she had probably just gotten tired of hearing it.

And, as you comment, this type of suicide reflects a self-obsessed creep. They usually do something gruesome and public, thinking this is going to make other people feel bad and feel guilty for not having given them whatever they wanted. I don’t think anybody feels very guilty, though; they’ve usually burned out the sympathy factor long before.

[SJSAMPLE]

In style.

[Churchillspirit]

.......life insurance doesn't pay out for suicides.

Depends how long he had the policy.

Moot point though....he canceled his policy.

[paddles]

I can think of a million ways to dispense with baggage like that, and whacking yourself is not one of them.

Like Gordon Liddy once said; "Whenever I've contemplated suicide I think of all the people who need to go first."

Living well is the best revenge. There's not a tart on this planet worth offing yourself for.

[peggybac]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[mkjessup]

Aston Martin. James Bond. Wow. What a classy ride to die in.

"Shaken, not stirred"

"Ripped off, not sliced".

Ouch. I'll bet he never felt a thing.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There's not a tart on this planet worth offing yourself for.

This one doesn't even merit giving yourself a wedgie with some clothesline and a segway scooter.

[Sicon]

she looks like somebody deep-fried Lucy Lawless!

Hilarious!

[beezdotcom]

What a jerk he was.

Agreed.

She probably seemed a little indifferent because, like most suicides, he had been threatening this every time he didn’t get his way.

Or, she could just be a jerk, too. I think we have to also allow for that possibility.

[hosepipe]

Committing suicide just might have been the better solution to living with that harpy..

[MosesKnows]

decapitated himself in his sports car

So who gets that really fine automobile?

[N3WBI3]

does not matter, he canceled it

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

“Mr Mellin owned the gym and sun tanning centre where his wife had worked as a beautician.”

Mellin, or....melanin?

[livius]

Yes, she certainly might have been obnoxious, too. But that’s certainly no cause for suicide, especially something that was really meant to gross out everybody, including the unfortunate motorists who happened to see it.

I remember reading about one guy who wanted to “get back” at his sawmill co-workers by committing suicide, so he chained himself to a log that was heading into the saw to be sliced into boards. There’s even a term for this: suicide “on the head of” someone else. That is, it’s somebody else’s responsibility that you’re committing suicide...so you do something really gross to show them just how awful they’ve been to you...

As you’ve probably guessed, I’ve had a personal experience with this and it has definitely had a negative effect on my own sympathy factor!

[NonValueAdded]

What a Mellin-head. Oh, wait ...

[Sax]

Yup, been spending a lot of time in her sugar daddy’s Fry Daddy.

[x]

It's the Aston Martin that makes the suicide and the story. Mellin would have felt foolish trying this in a Pinto or Gremlin or Yugo or Pacer (or whatever the 21st century equivalent of those lemons is), but in James Bond's car, he probably felt pretty classy leaving the world.

Reminds me of a Fellini short, "Toby Dammit," based on Edgar Allen Poe's story, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." In the movie, Terence Stamp loses his in a Ferrari unintentionally.

[Canedawg]

‘He ran up an extortionate amount of debt.”

Exhorbitant, perhaps?

Neither of them look like happy campers in their photos.

She looks like a China wannabe.

[Slings and Arrows]

Yup, been spending a lot of time in her sugar daddy’s Fry Daddy.

So many healthier alternatives...

[Sax]

Sure it's healthier, but grilling might give you some funny tan lines (grill marks)

[pabianice]

Maybe if he’d spent more time in the bedroom and less time in his car...

[grey_whiskers]

This one doesn't even merit giving yourself a wedgie with some clothesline and a segway scooter.

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

NO more calls, please.

We have a winner!

[Jet Jaguar]

The businessman tied one end of the rope to a tree, then climbed into his Aston Martin and wrapped the other end around his neck.

He then drove the £90,000 car into a busy main road, forcing other drivers to watch his horrific death. Yesterday Mrs Millen, a mother of two, told the inquest: ‘We had split up and been to court.

[cherry]

young women.. here's some advice....DO NOT MARRY OLDER MEN.....they are nothing but a "dead" end.....in ALL ways....except I suppose if you keep them supplied with Viagra, they might be okay in bed....

realize of course that some men don't need Viagra....(mine!)

[beezdotcom]

But that’s certainly no cause for suicide,

Agreed.

including the unfortunate motorists who happened to see it.

And agreed - even if she might have somehow "deserved it", clearly, nobody else did.

Truthfully, this sort of suicide is gutless - if you want to "make a statement", have the cojones to make it directly, in person.

[beezdotcom]

If you’re Xenalyte, then she must be Xenadark...

[stylecouncilor]

ping