Mother mummifies her dead son's body in alcohol for 18 years

Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia mummified Joni Bakaradze when he died 18 years ago

She wraps his corpse in sheets dipped in alcohol to keep it from decay

He's received a change of clothes every birthday until decay made too hard

She says: 'He wanted son to see him that way. The kid started to love him'

A mother whose son died 18 years ago pickled him in alcohol and stashed his corpse in the basement where she has cared for him ever since... all so his son can learn to love him.

Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia keeps Joni Bakaradze's body entombed in a wooden coffin beneath the family home in Georgia, eastern Europe.

But despite having died in 1995, the 22-year-old has remained almost perfectly mummified, thanks to his mother's constant love and attention.

And every year on his birthday she has even given him a change of clothes - until four years ago when decay finally made the feat impossible.

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