Table of Contents
- Pregnant Drug Mule's Sentence
- Background Information
- Family's Financial Struggles
- Sentencing Details
- Trafficking Claims
- Baby's Future in Prison
- Further Updates
PREGNANT drug mule Bella Culley will give birth in a prison cell after agreeing to serve a two-year sentence in a Georgia jail.
Bella, 19, has pleaded guilty to bringing a large quantity of drugs into the former Soviet state and reached a plea agreement.
Bella May Culley has been incarcerated in Georgia since her arrest in May.
Lyanne Kennedy, the mother of 19-year-old Bella, is pictured outside the court today.Credit: AP
Her attempt to gain freedom from jail was thwarted when her family could not secure funds for a £215,000 plea bargain agreement.
They were given until October 28 to raise the full amount before the judge imposes a jail sentence on November 2.
Bella’s mother, Lyanne Kennedy, 44, and father, Niel Culley, 49, have been urgently trying to borrow money but acknowledged they had not succeeded.
Niel provided 500,000 Georgian Lari (£140,000) today as part of a plea bargain deal, which will lead Judge Giorgi Gelashvili to sentence Bella to two years in prison, according to the Daily Mail.
This means the British teenager will now give birth to her baby boy while incarcerated in a harsh Georgian jail.
Bella alleged that she was deceived into trafficking 31 pounds of cannabis from Bangkok Airport in May after suffering burns from an iron and being shown beheading videos by a Thai drug gang.
The father of her child is believed to be a British man she met earlier during another segment of her backpacking trip in the Far East.
Bella reportedly asked her lawyer, Giorgi Gelashvili, if she would be allowed to keep her baby in jail.
To which the lawyer responded: “Nobody is going to take the baby away from you.”
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Will Bella be able to keep her baby in prison?
Yes, her lawyer has assured her that nobody will take the baby away from her.
How long is Bella's prison sentence?
Bella has been sentenced to two years in prison.
What was Bella charged with?
She was charged with importing a large quantity of cannabis.
