Bella Culley, a pregnant British teenager who was held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges, has spoken out for the first time after being freed from prison. Outside Tbilisi City court on Monday (3 November), the 19-year-old said she was “happy and relieved” to be going back to the UK after being held in an ex-Soviet prison for more than five months. She told reporters that she did not expect to be freed today, before hugging her lawyer Malkhaz Salakaia and walking away with her mother Lyanne Kennedy. Last week, her family made a payment of £137,000 to reduce her sentence after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors at Tbilisi City Court. She had been facing up to twenty years in prison when she was first arrested.

Billingham teenager Bella Culley is facing two years in prison in Georgia, South Caucasus.

Bella Culley - who is being held over drug smuggling charges - is due to give birth before Christmas

Mother of Bella May Culley, 19, awaiting sentencing on Monday, says conditions have improved after transfer to new jail

Culley, 19, who was arrested on drug-smuggling charges in May, is released after plea deal

Bella Culley, a pregnant British teenager who was held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges, has spoken out for the first time after being freed from prison. Outside Tbilisi…

The 19-year-old had been accused of smuggling marijuana and hashish in her hold luggage

After pleading guilty to smuggling drugs into Georgia and making a hefty payment to cut her jail time, a 19-year-old British student set to board a flight home.

Bella Culley was seen arm-in-arm with her mother as she touched down at Luton airport