Teesside teen Bella Culley has been surviving on bread toasted over a candle and enduring communal showers in a Georgian prison, according to her mother. The 19-year-old is pregnant amd accused of drug smuggling.

The student nurse from Billingham , who is reportedly due to give birth in December, will be formally sentenced next week after being charged with drug smuggling in Georgia earlier this year. Bella disappeared in Thailand in May before later 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, disclosed that the British teenager has now been moved to a "mother and baby" unit in the prison. Prior to this, she spent five months in a jail cell at Georgia's Rustavi Priso

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