Scarborough - A 54-year-old man was last night recovering in hospital after cutting off his penis with a kitchen knife in an attempt to relieve the pain from a medical condition.
Scarborough General Hospital in North Yorkshire said that the man was in a stable condition after undergoing surgery, but refused to say whether any attempt had been made to reattach the severed organ.
Police retrieved the penis from the floor of the man's garage after he had driven himself, bleeding profusely, to Whitby Hospital.