{"id":268689,"date":"2025-11-03T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:03:12","slug":"bella-culley-freed-from-georgian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268689\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Culley freed from Georgian prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Pregnant teenager Bella Culley, who had been facing drug trafficking charges in Georgia, has said she felt &#8220;happy and relieved&#8221; as she was freed from prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 19-year-old from Billingham, Teesside, had initial faced a possible 20 years in jail, but prosecutors made a last-minute change to the terms of a plea bargain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">As she learned of the news in court in Tbilisi, Miss Culley gave her lawyer Malkhaz Salakaia a big hug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The teenager was detained on 10 May having being arrested at Tbilisi International Airport when 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish were found in her luggage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pregnant teenager Bella Culley, who had been facing drug trafficking charges in Georgia, has said she felt &#8220;happy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-268689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}