A SHEPHERD was found dead after having sex with a scarecrow that he had put a wig and lipstick on.

Neighbours led police to the Argentinian man’s body after they rang the local council about a foul smell coming from Jose Alberto’s home in San Jose de Balcare, the International Business Times reports.

Police later found Alberto, 58, whose rotting remains were found next to the scarecrow.

The scarecrow also had a strap-on sex toy attached to it.

“During a first visual inspection it appeared that there were two dead bodies. Then it was found that actually one of the bodies was a doll with special features,” prosecutor Rodolfo Moure told The Balcarce Journal.

“It was lying next to the deceased and had a six-inch strap-on penis.”

Mr Moure said there were no signs of violence, or a robbery at the scene of the man’s death.

“We are working on the assumption that the man died during sex with the scarecrow,” Mr Moure said.

“Straw had been stuffed inside the old clothes that had been sewn together to make the scarecrow.

“We are now waiting the results of an autopsy.”

It is understood the man lived alone and didn’t have a mobile phone.