6 h. ago Bella May Culley could be separated from her baby behind bars in 'traumatic' update

Bella May Culley, the pregnant British teenager accused of being a drug mule, awaits her fate behind the bars of a notorious prison far from home - and now experts have raised the alarm

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23 h. ago Bella May Culley: Pregnant British teenager tells court she was ‘forced’ to smuggle drugs into Georgia

The teenager faces charges of possession and trafficking a large amount of illegal drugs

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26 h. ago 'Drug mule' Bella May Culley 'was forced to watch man be beheaded', says lawyer

Bella May Culley, 18, from Billingham in County Durham, was caught by the authorities with £200,00 worth of drugs at a Georgian airport and is facing a lengthy prison sentence in a former Soviet jail

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27 h. ago Brit gang 'threatened to decapitate' 'drug mule' Bella Culley 'and to kill her family'

Bella Culley, 18, is facing 20 years behind bars in a Georgian prison when she goes on trial next week for allegedly smuggling 11kg of cannabis into the Black Sea nation

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27 h. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate' teen drug mule who faces jail in ex

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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28 h. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate teenage drug mule suspect and her family and tortured her with a hot iron to force her to smuggle narcotics into Georgia

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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32 h. ago Pregnant Brit teen facing life in jail cries in court saying she was 'forced by torture'

Bella May Culley appeared in court in Georgia

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49 h. ago 'Drug smuggling' Brit teen sobs in court claiming she was ‘tortured and forced’

Bella Culley told the court: "All I wanted to do was to travel and this happened to me. I’m clean - I had nothing in my blood test. I wanted to make my family proud."

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49 h. ago Brit teen 'drug mule' Bella Culley sobs in court saying she was 'forced by torture'

Bella May Culley, 19, from Teeside, has been held in Georgia since May and could face life behind bars after being accused of smuggling cannabis into the ex-Soviet state

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51 h. ago Bella Culley: Brit teen 'drug mule' cries in court saying she was ‘forced by torture’

In an emotional court appearance in Georgia, the 19-year-old said: ‘I didn’t want to do this. I was forced by torture. I just wanted to travel. I study at the university to become a nurse.’

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51 h. ago Pregnant British drug mule suspect Bella Culley, 18, says she was 'forced under torture' to smuggle narcotics into Georgia from Thailand as she breaks down in tears before judge

The British 18-year-old claimed she has a 'scar' that proves she was violently coerced into trafficking the narcotics and has no idea what country she is even in.

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4 d. ago ‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark. Will she win the fight to get Zammi back?‘Now your two hours begin.” The countdown started when Keira Alexandra Kronvold had just given birth in the early hours of 7 November 2024. Keira, 38, was originally granted just one hour with her daughter, Zammi, before her baby was to be removed from her and taken to foster parents – but the midwife begged authorities to give them more time. Before Zammi’s arrival, the midwife asked if Keira had any wishes. “I said, ‘I want hand and footprints. I want to grab her, I don’t want you to catch her when she is born. I want to catch her myself.’”During labour – which lasted just an hour and a half – Keira kept checking whether her 20-year-old daughter, Zoe, who had never seen a birth before, was OK; and she was determined no...

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7 d. ago ‘I was last one to talk to Jo hours before her ex beat her to death with hammer’

The horrific death of her best friend left Hetti Barkworth-Nanton traumatised, but her tireless campaigning to raise awareness of domestic violence led to a Pride of Britain award last year – and now a stage at Glasto!

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1 week ago Developer at war with council after they reject floating 'party bar' proposals which would have 'traumatised' owners of £500k beach huts 

Paul Trickett, 66, and his wife Virginia , 50, had sought to bring a fully licensed premises called Christchurch Harbour Kitchen to the waters of the idyllic Mudeford Spit in Bournemouth.

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4 w. ago Foreign Office's urgent warning for 48 countries as Bella May Culley faces life in prison

The 18 year old faces life imprisonment after being accused of buying, possessing and importing significant quantities of drugs in Georgia.

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4 w. ago Reason Brit 'drug mules' are 'flavour of the month' for criminal gangs is exposed

Recently, Bella Culley, from Billingham, County Durham, was arrested in Georgia and Charlotte May Lee, from Coulsdon in London, allegedly had a synthetic strain of cannabis in her luggage in Sri Lanka

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4 w. ago Peru Two's Michaella McCollum says Brit 'drug mules' won't survive prison

Michaella McCollum, who served three years in a Peruvian jail on drug smuggling charges, has extended her sympathies to Bella May Culley and Charlotte May Lee, both of whom face lengthy sentences she says would be far beyond her own limit

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