Pregnant Drug Mule Bella May Culley To Be Released From Prison In Georgia Today

ByMF Jones

Huge update in the case of pregnant British drug mule Bella May Culley – the teenager is set to walk free from Georgian prison today.

Just last week, the Georgian courts ruled that 19-year-old Bella would spend two years in jail despite her parents stumping up £140,000 in order to curry favour with the judge. It looks as though the courts have had a change of heart however, with Bella due to be released today.

19-year-old Bella May Culley sparked a massive international search operation last May after going missing in Thailand, only to pop up 4,000 miles away in Georgia where she was busted with 14kg of cannabis in her suitcase at Tbilisi International Airport.

Culley, from Billingham in Teesside, County Durham, faced 20 years in prison initially, so imagine what a head f*ck it is to then be sentenced to two years, only to then be told you’re being set free a week later… all whilst pregnant.

Bella May Culley, 18, from Billingham, County Durham, seen in court in Tbilisi after she was detained at at the city???s airport ion suspicion of carrying 14kg of cannabis, which could lead to 20 years in jail or even a life sentence, according to Georgia???s Interior Ministry.

Speaking tearfully to media, a heavily-pregnant Bella said she was ‘happy and relieved’, and had not expected the decision to let her travel home, having been jailed since May 10.

Bella claimed she was tortured until she agreed to smuggle drugs out of Thailand, saying she was burned with a hot iron and shown a beheading video by a Thai gang.

Bella Culley, a British teenager arrested on drug smuggling charges in Georgia, walks towards journalists following a hearing of the city court that released her from custody in Tbilisi, Georgia, November 3, 2025. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

Prosecutor Vakhtang Tsalughelashvili confirmed that Culley will be freed today, saying prosecutors had ‘decided to consider the time she has already served.’

In the end, they sentenced her to five months and 25 days in prison, which is the total time she has already spent in custody. Meaning, she’s now free to go.

British woman Bella May Culley , 19, has been detained at Tbilisi airport in Georgia on suspicion of carrying 14kg of cannabis, which could lead to 20 years in jail or even a life sentence, according to the country???s Interior Ministry.

Bella’s mum, Lyanne Kennedy Culley, told the BBC the family is doing everything it can to get her home ‘where she should be’.

She said her daughter’s full story ‘will come in time’, adding: ‘Until then we are just a family doing everything we can for my daughter and grandson.’

Incredible to think that Bella will now be inundated with offers for TV interviews on Good Morning Britain and This Morning and whatnot, and will probably end up with a documentary in the next few months. Maybe even a full-on reality TV series?

After all, we don’t even know who the baby daddy is. Some random guy she met in Thailand? One of the Thai gang members who supposedly forced her to smuggle drugs? Sounds like exactly the sort of thing that trash TV addicts in the UK would lap up. The world is your oyster, Bella!

For the two girls who were recently caught smuggling 35kg of cannabis from New York to Birmingham, click HERE. No plea deal necessary – they were let off with a slap on the wrist.

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