A pregnant Bella Culley is returning to Britain today after being cleared to board a direct flight .

The 19-year-old was held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges but was freed yesterday on compassionate grounds. She is travelling back home with her mum Lyanne Kennedy, 44, on an easyJet flight due into London Luton Airport at 7pm. The teenager's lawyer Malkhaz Salakaia confirmed she won't need special permission to board the direct flight amid concerns she was past the normal 36-week limit to fly.

Culley, from Billingham in Teesside, was awaiting sentencing in Georgia after she was accused of smuggling 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish in her hold luggage at Tbilisi international airport back in May.

She spent five months in the former Soviet prison where she

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