A Russian man who robbed the graves of 29 young girls and lived with their mummified corpses could soon walk free.

Anatoly Moskvin, 59, turned dead children into ‘dolls’, dressing them in stockings, clothes and knee-length boots before applying makeup to them.

The historian – an expert on cemeteries and a former military intelligence translator – marked the birthday of each of his dead victims in his bedroom in chilling rituals.

Until now, courts repeatedly refused to release him, but pro-Kremlin news outlet Shot says psychiatric doctors are recommending that he is safe to return home.

They are ‘submitting documents to the court to discharge the patient and place him under the care of relatives’.

They want to re-categorise him as ‘incapacitated’, which means he could live with friends

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