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A pregnant British teenager accused of drug smuggling has been making do with makeshift meals and basic facilities whilst detained in Georgia, according to her mother.

Bella Culley, 19, who is expected to give birth in December, faces formal sentencing next week following drug smuggling charges in the Eastern European nation earlier this year.

The student nurse from Billingham, Teesside, disappeared in Thailand in May before surfacing in Georgia, where she was arrested after authorities discovered 11kg of cannabis and more than 400g of hashish in her luggage.

Her mother, Lyanne Kennedy, has revealed the teenager has now been moved to a prison "mother and baby" unit. She had previously endured five months at Georgia's Rustavi Prison Number Five.

Ms Kennedy described the hars

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