Court sends fourth to prison for Khorava street murder of teenagers in Tbilisi
For now three adults and one former official of the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office have been sentenced to prison for the high-profile murder case of two teenagers.
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Tbilisi city court has sent a fourth individual to prison for the high-profile murder case on Khorava Street in central Tbilisi last year, claiming the lives of two minors - David Saralidze and Levan Dadunashvili.
The individual was sentenced to prison for three years for giving false testimony, and was a minor at that time in 2017 when the incident took place.
He will have to spend one year and nine months in prison, as he has already spent six months in prison and the initial three year was decreased to two years and three months according to the Juvenile Code of Georgia.
The family of the convict reacted to the verdict negatively, stating that the decision was “unimaginable and very unfair.”
We were waiting for a conditional sentence as a maximum punishment. We will release all the recordings proving the minor offence of my son,” Kakha Gloti, father of the convict said.
The court verdict in 2018 stirred controversy on the murder case, as it failed to name the individual who inflicted deadly injuries to Saralidze.
Georgian Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze quit the post due to the case, while a former official of the Prosecutor’s office was sentenced to 13 months in prison for not reporting the crime.
Tbilisi City Court has sentenced former official of the Prosecutor’s Office Mirza Subeliani to 13 months in prison.
The police have detained Zaza Saralidze today, whose son was killed in a school brawl last year and who has been demanding the punishment of the “offenders who still walk free.”
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze has resigned in the wake of the Tbilisi City Court verdict on the high profile murder case of two teenage boys in central Tbilisi in December last year. In a special statement released on the official page of the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office, Shotadze stated that his body has taken all measures to establish the truth on the case.
The Tbilisi City Court verdict on the high profile murder case of two teenagers in central Tbilisi last year has caused controversy as the court verdict failed to say who killed one teenage boy. After the verdict was announced hundreds of people gathered in front of Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s office, demanding fair investigation.
Tbilisi Court of Appeals ruled earlier today that a 16-year-old David Saralidze, in a high-profile Khorava street murder case of two minors in 2017, was killed by another minor, G.J., with other unidentified individuals in central Tbilisi.
One of the main witnesses in the high-profile murder case of two schoolboys in 2017 in a school brawl, who was also a minor that time, Mikheil Kalandia has been sent to pre-trial detention. Kalandia was charged with premediated murder of David Saralidze by a group, in aggravating circumstances yesterday.
Ruling party MPs Mamuka Mdinaradze and Giorgi Volski have promised to vote again for Irakli Shotadze, “a professional and a worthy man,” if he is selected as the country’s prosecutor general by the Prosecutorial Council in the coming months. Zaza Saralidze, father of deceased minor David Saralidze, whose son’s case became the reason for Shotadze’s resignation, says that Shotadze’s “return to the battlefield will be dignified.”
Police have detained one individual, identified only as G.M. (born in 2001) for premeditated murder of minor Davit Saralidze.
Police have detained a 14-year old minor for stabbing three children on September 13 on A. Tsereteli Avenue in central Tbilisi.