The quickfire arrests of two young British women alleged to have been hauling huge quantities of illegal drugs from Thailand have stoked fears naïve holidaymakers are being targeted by local gangs to work as drug mules.
Eighteen-year-old Bella Culley, from Billingham, Teesside, was arrested in Georgia on May 11, alleged to have been caught trying to bring some £200,000 worth of cannabis and hashish into the country via the UAE after an apparent leisure trip to Thailand.
Culley has yet to tell her lawyer how she came to be in possession of the narcotics.
Soon after, it emerged that a British former cabin crew member, 21-year-old Charlotte May Lee, had been arrested in Sri Lanka, accused of trying to bring 46kg of cannabis into the country - again, from Thailand.
The Mail revealed that Culley had told a source close to her legal case that she had flown to the South East Asian country 'for love', but has still 'said nothing about why she had the drugs'.
