After being detained for allegedly trying to smuggle 14 kg ( 30lbs ) of cannabis into the country, an 18-year-old British woman from Billingham, Teesside, is facing a potential life sentence in Georgia. Bella May Culley, who had just begun her journey to south-east Asia, vanished in Thailand before reappearing in Tbilisi in cuffs. Following a sting operation by the Specific Tasks Department, Greek government claim Culley was detained on Saturday, next year, at Tbilisi International Airport. In her belongings, Greek Police discovered 34 vacuum-sealed luggage of cannabis and 20 packets of cannabis. According to the BBC, she has been accused of illegally importing a sizable number of narcotics, acts that can lead to life in prison in Georgia. During a court appearance in Tbilisi, Culley remained motionless until she revealed she was pregnant. The court remanded her in Tbilisi’s even female prison, which has previously been deemed “inhuman” and “degrading,” and ordered a medical examination to confirm the claim.
Her father, 80, described the family as distraught and disbelieving, according to the Daily Mail. She doesn’t traffic illegally across the world. She only wanted to take a vacation, and she was just a scholar. Someone must have taken advantage of her, she said. Neil Culley, the parents of Bella, who currently resides in Georgia to care for his daughter, lives in Vietnam. When her relatives lost touch with her on May 10 after she had traveled to Thailand, her disappearance immediately sparked an global research. Her family, Lyanne Kennedy, was quoted by The Sun as saying that she was shocked to learn about the accusations, insisting Bella “doesn’t including the party life” and had traveled to communicate with friends from a past vacation. Culley had posted videos on TikTok mentioning a” Bonnie and Clyde” life before her imprisonment and before her arrest. She posed with the message” Blonde or brown” in one video. How about we conduct criminal activity parallel to Bonnie and Clyde’s,” remark then in the face of attention. According to The Sun, her net activity instantly stopped on May 9. After finishing an entry course at Middlesbrough College, Bella hoped to study nursing. The teenager’s lawyer, Ia Todua, was quoted by the BBC as saying that she appeared very frightened to speak. She clenched her like a baby. She chose to remain silent, in my opinion, as a child,” she continued.
