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Pregnant Bella Culley has been told she will serve a two-year prison term after accepting a plea deal with Georgian authorities.

The 19 year old, who is 25 weeks expecting, will be officially sentenced next week for allegedly trying to traffic drugs into the former Soviet state earlier this year.

A court in the capital Tbilisi heard on Tuesday that Culley's relatives, including her mother Lyanne Kennedy, 44, who works as a charity worker, and her father Niel Culley, 49, an oil rig technician, have successfully paid 500,000 Georgian Lari (£138,000) to the court.

Bella looked taken aback as the agreement's terms were announced during a short hearing at Tbilisi City Court. Nevertheless, the teenager, who has already spent five months behind bars on remand, was seen grinning

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