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A pregnant British teenager jailed for smuggling drugs into Georgia is set to be released.

Bella Culley, 19, who is reportedly due to give birth in December, was expected to face jail time after confessing to smuggling drugs into the country earlier this year.

But she will now be released, with the teenager having already spent nearly six months on remand in jail following her arrest at the international airport of Georgia's capital on May 10.

Her family, including her mum Lyanne Kennedy, 44, a charity worker, and her dad Niel Culley, 49, an oil rig technician, paid a fine of 500,000 Georgian Lari (£138,000) as part of a plea agreement with Georgian prosecutors.

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Her mum Lyanne wept outside the courtroom before t

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