Скачать или смотреть Pregnant British teen Bella Culley speaks for first time after being freed from Georgia prison

Bella Culley, a pregnant British teenager held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges, has been freed.

The 19-year-old, from Billingham in Teesside, was awaiting sentencing after she was accused of smuggling 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish in her hold luggage at Tbilisi International Airport in May.

She had been held in the former Soviet prison for over five months, and said she had been forced to boil pasta in a kettle to eat and dig a hole in the ground to use the toilet. She is 35 weeks pregnant and was transferred to a mother and baby unit over the weekend, but has now been freed.

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