A British teenager who is facing life in prison in Georgia on drugs charges ended up in the country 'without knowing what she was doing' and was 'visibly shaken' when she learned her fate, her lawyer has revealed.
Bella May Culley, 18, is accused of illegally buying, possessing and importing large quantities of narcotics after she was allegedly caught smuggling 14kg of cannabis into the former Soviet state.
The youngster from Billingham, Country Durham, was believed to have gone missing in Thailand before she was detained 3,700 miles away at Tbilisi International Airport on the charges.
Her duty lawyer Ia Todua told the Mail that the teenager 'was in an emotional state' when she was told her rights and what she was accused of.
She said: 'When I explained to her that what she was accused of was an especially severe crime then she was concerned and visibly shaken.'
