{"id":1226,"date":"2011-02-15T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T07:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=case-studies&p=1226"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:21:31","slug":"tsintsabadze-v-georgia","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/tsintsabadze-v-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsintsabadze v Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Case No. 35403\/06<\/strong>
\nJudgement date: 15 February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

The applicant\u2019s son, Zurab Tsintsabadze,\u00a0was serving a three-year prison\u00a0sentence for an offence committed at his\u00a0former wife\u2019s home. On 30 September\u00a02005 he was found hanged in the prison\u2019s\u00a0storeroom. The official autopsy concluded\u00a0that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxia\u00a0by hanging.<\/p>\n

The applicant consistently denied that\u00a0her son had committed suicide. On examining\u00a0the body herself, she found injuries\u00a0suggesting that her son had been beaten.\u00a0She claimed that he had been killed and\u00a0hanged afterwards to conceal the murder. Despite the existence of evidence to support\u00a0this claim, the deceased\u2019s death was\u00a0treated as suicide from the outset and the\u00a0investigation into the facts surrounding the death was limited. On 13 July 2006,\u00a0the Public Defender requested that a public\u00a0prosecution be initiated. However, the\u00a0regional prosecutor dismissed the case due\u00a0to lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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