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Bella's dad 'visits teen in prison for first time'
The Gazette
|May 23, 2025
SEEN GOING INTO JAIL WHERE DAUGHTER IS HELD
TEESSIDE teen Bella May Culley has been visited by her father Niel while she’s incarcerated in Georgia.
The 18-year-old disappeared in Thailand before reappearing in Georgia where she now potentially faces a life sentence after being accused of importing cannabis.
Niel was recently sighted at the prison where Bella is detained, believed to be their first meeting post-arrest.
The Brit, who has declared to the court that she’s expecting, is detained at Women’s Prison No. 5 in Rustavi, roughly a 45-minute drive from Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.
It comes as Bella's newly appointed solicitor referred to her as “not far from childhood” and expressed readiness to contest the charges.
This story is from the May 23, 2025 edition of The Gazette.
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