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Apparently the idler pulley is known to freeze, then the belt breaks the raised lip of the pulley off and ties itself around one of the other pulleys. Not say that's what happened here, but that's the result of a bit of Googling.
Given that I've maintained this car with an open cheque-book I'd have hoped that anything which is known to be prone to borking itself would have been checked and/or replaced, but there you go.