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Bella Culley tells court she was tortured into smuggling drugs
The 19-year-old from Billingham is refused bail at a pre-trial hearing in Tbilisi.www.bbc.co.uk
Mr Malkhaz Salakaia, representing Miss Culley, said she had been threatened with a hot iron to coerce her into travelling with the suitcase filled with drugs.
Mr Salakaia, who does not speak English and specialises in juvenile law, said the teenager was not aware of what was in her suitcase.
Addressing the court, Mr Salakaia said the teenager tried to inform customs officers in Thailand "but nobody paid attention".
"She was instructed to fly to Georgia - she did not even know where Georgia was located geographically."
He also told the court that Miss Culley was 18 weeks pregnant.
I'm suspecting some MH issues.
These strange tales + phantom pregnancy.
JMO
I think this pregnancy is way too convenient to be real.I think the pregnancy is real, unlike everything else she's said.
What's a fake pregnancy going to achieve though? They'd know she's lying eventually.I think this pregnancy is way too convenient to be real.
A convenient miscarriage due to the stress now she has been refused bail? If she did make up a pregnancy then I presume she thought it would be to help her to get released.What's a fake pregnancy going to achieve though? They'd know she's lying eventually.
I think this pregnancy is way too convenient to be real.
I know, but right now the only source claiming pregnancy is Bella and her lawyer. There haven't been any official confirmation.The authorities would have had her tested the moment the pregnancy was announced. If she is pregnant, she needs pre-natal care. They're not just going to wait nine months and see if a baby pops out.
It will achieve as much as the torture claim that is even easier to verify than pregnancy.What's a fake pregnancy going to achieve though? They'd know she's lying eventually.
Never ending story...
In Bali now...
With Death Penalty hanging over their heads...
According to the DM, the prosecutors in this case are now seeking a 12 month custodial sentence.
If true, substantial amounts of money must have changed hands, imo.
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Bali prosecutors decide AGAINST execution of Brit 'drug smugglers'
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested on February 1 after being stopped at Bali's international airport with 17 packages of cocainewww.dailymail.co.uk
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British gang 'threatened to decapitate teenage drug mule suspect'
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.www.dailymail.co.uk
Teen drug mule suspect Bella Culley claims a British gang in Thailand threatened to kill her family and decapitate her if she did not smuggle 11kg of cannabis.
The pregnant 18-year-old also said she was burned with an iron and desperately texted her family saying: 'HELP ME'.
She also stopped a policeman in Bangkok, saying she was being coerced into taking the narcotics to the Black Sea nation of Georgia.
Speaking after her hearing in Tbilisi City Court, he told the Mail she was targeted by a British gang in Bangkok.
'They told her: we know the addresses of your parents, we know where your 16-year-old brother is,' he said.
'They made her watch a video of a man being decapitated and told her: if you don't do as told, this is what is going to happen to you and your family.
Again very bizarre she didn't mention this when first arrested. I wonder if there were cctv cameras in the area she begged Thai police for help? Or cctv of them returning her to her torturers? JMOFor those without X.
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British gang 'threatened to decapitate teenage drug mule suspect'
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.www.dailymail.co.uk
Teen drug mule suspect Bella Culley claims a British gang in Thailand threatened to kill her family and decapitate her if she did not smuggle 11kg of cannabis.
The pregnant 18-year-old also said she was burned with an iron and desperately texted her family saying: 'HELP ME'.
She also stopped a policeman in Bangkok, saying she was being coerced into taking the narcotics to the Black Sea nation of Georgia.
Speaking after her hearing in Tbilisi City Court, he told the Mail she was targeted by a British gang in Bangkok.
'They told her: we know the addresses of your parents, we know where your 16-year-old brother is,' he said.
'They made her watch a video of a man being decapitated and told her: if you don't do as told, this is what is going to happen to you and your family.
At the rate miss ma'am here is going, I'll only believe she's pregnant if and when I see an actual baby come out of her. MOOI think this pregnancy is way too convenient to be real.
The pregnant 18-year-old also said she was burned with an iron and desperately texted her family saying: 'HELP ME'.
She also stopped a policeman in Bangkok, saying she was being coerced into taking the narcotics to the Black Sea nation of Georgia.
Speaking after her hearing in Tbilisi City Court, he told the Mail she was targeted by a British gang in Bangkok.
'They told her: we know the addresses of your parents, we know where your 16-year-old brother is,' he said.
'They made her watch a video of a man being decapitated and told her: if you don't do as told, this is what is going to happen to you and your family.