Boris Parulava, former head of Security Service of Penitentiary Department and one of the main witnesses of Prosecutor’s Office into death case of Colonel Sergo Tetradze, remembered the last minutes of Tetradze’s life during the court trial today.

The court learnt the dreadful details from Parulava who said that the deceased colonel, charged for espionage, became the victim of inhuman treatment and torture in prison.

A doctor of Gldani prison was also questioned today who said that he had found the Colonel being in coma in a quarantine cell.

Bacho Akhalaia, former Minister of Defense and also Minister of Internal Affairs as well as several former high-ranking officials are charged into Sergo Tetradze’s case.

According to Chief Prosecutor’s Office, in September 2011, Bacho Akhalaia, Megis Kardava, Aleksandre Mukhadze and several employees of the military police department repeatedly beat, abused and tortured the officer of defense ministry, Vice-Colonel Davit Londaridze, Colonel Sergo Tetradze and citizens Sergei Chapligin and Gioirgi Gorelashvili to get coerced confessions from them.

“As a result of torture which Sergo Tetradze was subjected to, his health aggravated and he died of cardiac failure,” the prosecutor’s office said.

Sergo Tetradze’s case represents one of the high-profile cases in modern judiciary system of Georgia. Tetradze, detained in suspicion of spying in September of 2011, died several days after the arrest.