Pregnant British ‘drug mule’ Bella Culley will likely spend two years in prison even after her family paid a six-figure fine to authorities.

Earlier this month, the 19-year-old’s family forked out £140,000 in a plea bargain, but Judge Giorgi Gelashvili will sentence her to a short stint in prison regardless.

Bella, a student nurse from Billingham, County Durham, went missing in Thailand before she was arrested 3,7000 miles away at Tbilisi International Airport on May 10 for allegedly smuggling a large amount of illegal drugs in her suitcase.

She claims she was tortured until she agreed to smuggle drugs out of Thailand, saying she was burned with a hot iron and shown a beheading video by a Thai gang.

Her mum, Lyanne Kennedy, 44, and father, Niel Culley, 49, paid the eye-watering fine in

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