British teenager Bella May Culley, who was arrested in Georgia on drug smuggling charges earlier this year, has been released from prison as part of a plea deal.

Culley, 19, who is pregnant, was arrested in May at Tbilisi Airport and accused of attempting to smuggle 12 kilograms of marijuana and two kilograms of hashish into the country.

She was found guilty by a Georgian court on Monday and sentenced to five months and 25 days in prison, the total time she had already spent in custody. Her family also paid a 500,000 lari (about $282,000) fine as part of a plea deal.

Culley and her mother, Lyanne Kennedy, both cried as the verdict was read and embraced when the hearing finished.

Georgian prosecutors were considering a two-year sentence, but "decided to consider the time she has already

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