A 52-year-old son killed his 85-year-old mother in Tbilisi on January 21. The murder was committed in Qvemo Fonichala district, Sadguri Street #57a.

According to official information from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the victim, Nadzezda Sisauri, had several injuries on her face and had her throat cut with a blunt object, perhaps an ax. The suspect Zauri Sisauri was drunk. He himself called the police and said: “Help me, I killed my mother.”.

According to the neighbors, when the police and ambulance entered the home, the victim’s body was already covered with white sheets. The suspect did not resist the police and was arrested at the home.

Those neighbors said the mother and son lived in socially hard conditions. The walls of the flat were nearly collapsed. There had been frequent arguments between the suspect and the victim recently. They said the mother had health problems and the son was addicted to alcohol.

“Life itself and interrelation with people – these were her hobbies. She was a very cheerful and energetic person, very warm,” recalls Nino Mchedlishvili, a friend of 40-year-old Manana Zubiashvili, who was found dead in her house on Radiani Street in Tbilisi on April 3, 2012.

This case of femicide was dropped in accordance with Article 105, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code without reaching the court a few weeks after the incident took place. The conclusion of the investigation was especially tough for family members and friends, who are having a hard time believing that the victim was killed by her husband, who then committed suicide.

“The door was closed. No one was answering. All kind of bad things started coming to mind. So her friends called the police,” remembers Mariam, 45, a neighbor, who accidentally appeared at the scene when the victim's family and friends were trying to find her after she didn’t appear at work or answer their calls. At about 2 pm, Vato Sepiashvili, the victim's son who also worked with her at Radio Fortuna, became worried and went to check after his mother. Sepiashvili and several co-workers found his mother and her husband dead from gun wounds after police opened the doors.

On October 17, 2014, at Ilia State University three gunshots stopped the learning process. An ex-husband shot twice a 33-year-old lecturer and then the murderer committed suicide on the spot in front of professors and students.

An emergency brigade took Maka Tsivtsivadze to Republican hospital, but her condition was poor and doctors could not manage to save her life. According to the Republican Hospital resuscitation department head Nicholas Kvachadze, death was caused by brain injuries incompatible with life. “There were multiple gunshot wounds. Based on the test results, there were life-threatening wounds. The patient was taken to the operating area, but because of the difficult situation the operation couldn’t be held,” said Kvachadze.

Lela Avlokhashvili, 43, was found dead on Feb. 6 at 7:30 am in her rented house at 14 Kidiashvili Street in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Avlokhashvili had chronic asthma. The day before her death, she visited a doctor and got medicines, her co-workers at a Tbilisi marketplace said. There might would be no discussion about her cause of death, except for one fact - money and gold jewelry that Avlokhashvili was keeping at home was missing, according to her husband. "She bought some golden things recently and showed us. She had some money gathered and was looking for an apartment to buy, but I did not know where she was keeping this stuff," said a friend of the victim who asked that her named not be published.

On September 18, 2014, Khanum Jeyranova, 30, was found after she hung herself in her father’s house in Garachop village ( village is located next to Lambalo) in the Sagarejo region of Georgia. Two days earlier, her husband’s relatives accused her of adultery and forced her to go around the village barefoot. During this process she was physically and verbally abused by young men.

On September 15, 2014, her husband’s relatives saw her in the car of Azalkhan Ismailov, who is from Kazlar village. That is why she was beaten severely in the street by her husband’s cousins.

On July 23, 2013, after hours of searching for the missing Kochalidze, the police and relatives found her body with a huge rock on her back in an abandoned area of the beach in Batumi. Her throat had been slit with a sharp subject; some of her jewelry, the bicycle and her iPhone 4 were missing from the crime scene. On January 21, 2015, Mohammadamin Ruintan, 30, accused in the murder of 17-year-old Mariam Kochalidze in 2013 in Batumi, was detained by the police after the killing of an 8-year-old boy in Gomishan District, Iran

On January 4, 2017, a family on Davit Agmashenebeli Street in Tbilisi woke up to a terrible reality. A husband killed his own wife.
“It was the most terrible day of my life. My life is over,” said the mother of the victim.
Zizi Urushadze, 49, and Vakhtang Samkharadze, 50, were married in 2000. Relatives and friends of the victim said the couple had a very nice relationship and loved each other. They said she always took care of him, because he was unemployed.

According to her mother Tsira Matitashvili, the victim was a strong woman who loved science and poetry. She graduated from with a degree in medical studies but never became a doctor.
“At their wedding, Zizi told me that she was very happy," her mother said. "I remember how bright her eyes were that day. For her, family meant everything."

“I told her several times, but she never listened to me,” says Halima, the mother of Gunay Isayeva, 20, who was killed by her husband in July 2016 in Ponichala settlement in Tbilisi.
For her, the tragic ending for her beloved child could have been predicted on the day she became the wife of Novruz Novrasov.
Novruz cut his wife's throat while she was sleeping in her father`s house. He sneaked into her room on the afternoon of July 13 and easily committed the crime. The victim`s brother was sleeping in the next room and her grandmother was watching TV. According to her brother, she went outside holding the wounded throat which caused her death several minutes later.
After the crime, Novrasov went to the local police office and confessed. Later he was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment.