Bella Culley tells court she was tortured into smuggling drugs

In Georgia, a British teenager “tortured” to the smuggling drugs “torture”, rejected the bail before the hearing in a statement.

Bella Culley, a 19 -year -old Billingham, appeared at the Tbilisi City Court and claimed that she was not guilty of having a large amount of illegal drugs and charges of human trafficking.

Mrs Malkhaz Salakia, representing Mrs. Culley, said that she was threatened with a warm iron to force her to travel with a suitcase full of medicines.

Ms. Culley stood in front of the judge in the courtroom and showed her right wrist with a scar.

19 -year -old speaking in court said: “I didn’t want to do this. I had to do this through torture.

“I just wanted to travel. I am a good person. I am a student at university. I am a clean person. I am not doing drugs.”

Salakaia, who did not speak English and specialized in child law, said that the young person was not aware of what is in the suitcase.

He also told the court that Mrs. Culley was 18 weeks pregnant.

While Ms. Culley was detained for 52 days before the hearing, 12kg (26 lbs) in a prosecution travel bag and 2kg (4.4LBS) in the prosecution, and investigated whether the poppy has planned and planned to deliver it to someone else.

Judge Lela Kalichenko detained him until the next court hearing on July 10th.

Ms. Culley’s father, aunt and grandfather joined the small courtroom in Tbilisi.

Georgian police, civil servants in a travel bag in the International Airport of the cannabis and narcotic drugs in a travel bag, he said.

BBC understands that Mrs. Culley came to Tbilisi on a flight from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on May 10th.

The BBC was told that the British Embassy advised the young family not to talk to the press.

A Georgian police spokesman said the arrest was the result of a common operation between more than one department, and if he was found guilty, Ms. Culley might face up to 20 years in prison or life prison.