NEWS: Man cuts throat in protest of bedroom tax

 

A man cut his throat with a knife in a benefits advice office in a protest about the controversial bedroom tax.

The middle-aged man said he was ‘sick of all this s___’ then dragged a blade through skin from his ear down to his throat on each side of his neck.

The wounds left him and the floor of the Runcorn office spattered with blood, a witness said.

The bedroom tax was widely protested across the country – and was apparently too much for one man who slit his throat in protest about it

The gory outburst happened at about 2pm on Monday, at Halton Direct Link in Halton Lea shopping centre.

Staff hit an emergency alarm during the incident.

The witness, who was waiting in line to see an adviser, said no other residents reacted to the outburst but that staff seemed ‘a little bit shocked’.

He said: ‘From what I could see, the bloke had gone to see an adviser.

Chancellor George Osborne’s bedroom tax prompted the dramatic outburst

‘He was upset about the bedroom tax and wasn’t getting through and he started to cut his throat on both sides and threw the knife on the floor and he had blood coming from his neck.

‘There was a lot of blood but it hadn’t come out of his artery, he wasn’t gushing out blood.

‘He went through the side of his neck from his ear to the front.

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