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Woman on drugs charges in Georgia to give birth in prison after plea deal
The Guardian
|October 29, 2025
The family of a pregnant British teenager being held on drug smuggling charges in Georgia have paid £138,000 in a plea bargain deal that could result in a reduced two-year jail sentence.
It may mean that Bella Culley, a 19-year-old student nurse from Billingham, Teesside, will give birth while imprisoned in the former Soviet republic.
Culley had been travelling in southeast Asia and was reported missing in Pattaya, Thailand. In May she was arrested at Tbilisi airport after being stopped with, it is alleged, 14kg of cannabis worth £200,000 in a travel bag.
At a court hearing in Tbilisi yesterday, Culley's mother, Lyanne Kennedy, told reporters that the family had managed to raise 500,000 lari (£138,000) and were waiting for the funds to be credited to the relevant government account.
The family had been attempting to raise £220,500 in the hope it would secure the immediate release of Culley, who is due to give birth before Christmas.
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