Nineteen-year-old Bella May Culley said she had not been expecting to be able to walk free. Photo: AP PHOTO

Bella Culley, a pregnant UK teenager jailed in Georgia for smuggling marijuana and hashish from Thailand, has been freed under a plea agreement that sentenced her to the nearly six months she had already spent in jail.

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Flanked by her mother and lawyer outside the courthouse moments after being released, Culley, 19, said she had not been expecting to walk free, and was "happy and relieved" at the news.

Culley, from Billingham in northeast England, was sentenced to the five mon

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