56 h. ago Sister fights to save vulnerable British teen accused of smuggling kilo of meth to Japan

Sean Stephenson, 18, has been detained in Japan after allegedly being caught with over a kilo of meth - but his family insist he was groomed and coerced by British gang members

Politics

4 d. 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

Events

4 d. 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.

Events

4 d. 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.

Events

5 d. 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."

Events

5 d. 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

Events

5 d. 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.’

Events

1 week ago Slovakian paedophile who kidnapped and gang raped schoolgirl, 12, starred in rap video funded by British taxpayers

Ernest Gunar Jr, 27, lured his victim into a car with the promise of a cigarette at a car park in Dover last August, alongside fellow Slovakians Kevin Horvath, 26, and Ivan Turtak, 38.

Events

3 w. ago Brit 'drug mule' Charlotte May Lee facing months in jail without bail claims lawyer

Ms Lee, who denies the allegations, 'doesn't know what happened' as she waits for Thai authorities to determine whether the substance they found was, in fact, cannabis

Events