- Police found a pensioner, 66, dead in his St Petersburg home holding a sex doll
- The man, Valery M., had assembled the doll from fabric, rope and old towels
- Authorities had entered Valery’s home after neighbours complained of a smell
- Police said he had been dead for several months, likely due to natural causes
Police have found the mummified remains of a lonely pensioner who died embracing a home-made sex doll.
The 66-year-old was discovered in St Petersburg after neighbours complained of a nasty smell in their apartment block.
The grandfather named only Valery M. had not been seen for several months, they said.
Police found the mummified remains of a 66-year-old pensioner who died in St Petersburg embracing a home made sex doll, pictured right. Neighbours had complained about a nasty smell coming from the apartment
When police broke in they found the dead pensioner lying on his sofa next to his ‘girlfriend’.
They said his clothed body was partially mummified and that he had been dead for several months, revealed Nevsky News.
Police believe he had assembled the doll from items collected from rubbish bins near his home in the Moskovsky district of the city.
The head was torn from a mannequin used in a clothes shop.
The body, pictured, was assembled from pieces of fabric, rope and old towels with police believing that the man had assembled the doll from items collected from rubbish bins near his home
Pictured, the Moskovsky district of St Petersburg where 66-year-old Valery M was found dead embracing a doll that he had assembled himself. Police said the man had been dead for several months
Pictured, the city where Valery M may have collected parts to create his ‘girlfriend’, a sex doll which he was found holding when police discovered his body in the Moskovsky district of St Petersburg
The body was assembled from pieces of fabric, rope and old towels.
The large disproportionate bust was made of pink towelling rugs.
‘His body looks more like a mummy, but the ‘girlfriend’ lying next to him on the sofa has remained unscathed,’ said the report.
In the picture a child’s unclothed plastic doll is also visible.
An autopsy will be carried out but police believe the man died from natural causes in the company of the self made doll.
There were no signs of violence, said a spokesman.