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A pregnant British teenager accused of drug smuggling has been moved to a mother and baby unit in a Georgian prison, her mother has said.

Bella May Culley, 19, who is reported to be eight months pregnant, was arrested at Tbilisi Airport back in May this year.

It is alleged that the 19-year-old, from Teesside, tried to smuggle 12 kilograms (26.4 pounds) of marijuana and two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of hashish into the country.

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Culley’s mother, Lyanne Kennedy, told the BBC that her daughter has been transferred to a prison with a mother and baby unit.

She was previously being held at Georgia’s Rustavi Prison Number Five, with the broadcaster reporting that she only had access to a hole in the ground for a toi

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