A court of law in the Tbilisi capital city of Georgia has sentenced one person for killing his 27-year-old wife. The court awarded a jail term of 20 years to the accused.
Although the court sent him behind bars with 20 years’ jail time, it did not consider the pleas of the prosecution and victim to award the accused life imprisonment.
The accused was found guilty of killing his wife who was sleeping next to the baby. The judge of the court at the same time did not determine whether murder was the result of gender discrimination. The non-governmental organization namely Rights Georgia expressed its dissatisfaction with the decision of the court.
The incident took place at the beginning of the year. As per the investigation on January 9, 2024 the accused killed a sleeping woman with a sharp weapon. The accused have given her multiple wounds with a weapon in Varketili. The law authorities booked the accused man for intentionally committed murder with particular cruelty. However the judge disagreed with a plea that it was a gender-based crime.
The NGO “Rights Georgia” appealed to the Prosecution office to enhance the offense and now on August 22, the court received the medical report . As per the report anemia was the cause of death for women caused by multiple wounds given by the accused. A psychiatric-psychological test was ordered to be conducted on the accused to determine his state of mind.
The report stated that the accused was able to understand the nature of the crime at the time of the commission of the offense. Family members of the victim lady requested and appealed to the court for the hard punishment of life imprisonment.
It is worth noting that the officials and lawyers of the NGO “Rights Georgia ”did not agree with the finding of a court of law. They also shared their point with the official of the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia in the context of an appeal to the country’s Supreme Court. The non-government organization Rights Georgia was pursuing the cases with the active support of the USAID Rule of Law Program.
