A British para hero is languishing in agony facing 12 years in a notorious Georgian jail for entering with medication for spinal injuries from a jump in Afghanistan.
Sergeant Matthew ‘Des’ Desmond, 49, immediately declared the drugs when crossing into the former Soviet republic from Turkey on his Triumph motorbike in April.
But despite his medicine exactly matching a monthly prescription he had not obtained local paperwork and was arrested and charged with importing narcotics.
Now the highly decorated Iraq and Afghanistan veteran is locked up in Gldani Prison – once ranked one of the worst jails in the world due to sexual
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