EXCLUSIVE Revealed: 'Bonnie and Clyde' TikTok boasts of Brit student who vanished in Thailand...before ending up in court 4,000 miles away on drugs charges
She is the British student who boasted of her 'Bonnie and Clyde' lifestyle on TikTok, sharing bikini snaps of her lapping up the sun on idyllic beaches in the Philippines.
But now, 18-year-old Bella May Culley faces being caged in an ex-soviet jail after being arrested on drug smuggling charges.
The teenager appeared to be living a life of luxury, scuba diving and partying on the tropical islands of Palawan and Panay, where she explored coastal caves and played with turtles.
But in a posts on TikTok and Instagram, Culley also flaunted huge stacks of cash – showing off a pile of £10 and £20 notes held together by a hairband.
While in other clips shared on social media, the nursing student appeared to film herself 'smoking cannabis' riding in the back of a car.
'Blonde or brunette? Erm how about we get up to criminal activities side by side like Bonnie n Clyde making heavy figures and f***ing on balconies over the world,' she bragged in one video on April 1.
In a caption she added: 'I don't care if we on the runnnnn baby long as i'm next to uuu.'
However, her online posts stopped abruptly last week, sparking fears from her family she may have vanished while heading to Thailand.
Her parents were so worried, they jetted out to the country as part of a desperate hunt for the missing teen.
Unbeknown to them, Culley had been detained 3,000 miles away in Georgia, after allegedly being caught carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis in Tbilisi International Airport.
Appearing in court today, the 18-year-old alleged smuggler claimed she was now pregnant. A judge remanded her in custody, with Culley now expected to undergo medical examinations to assess the veracity of her pregnancy claim.
Should she be found guilty of drug smuggling, the Brit could face a sentence of life behind bars.
Culley's last posts on Instagram and Tiktok came on May 9. She was reported missing after family members did not hear from her from May 10.
The 18-year-old was reportedly charged with illegally purchasing and storing a particularly large amount of narcotics, illegally purchasing and storing the narcotic drug marijuana, and illegally importing it into Georgia.
During an inspection, '34 hermetically sealed packages containing marijuana were found in the passenger's bag, as well as 20 packages of hashish,' local media has claimed.
Appearing in a court in Tbilisi today, Culley did not answer the judge's questions regarding drugs allegations.
She told the court she chose to remain silent about the charges brought against her, Rustavi TV channel reported.
The judge remanded her in custody.
The report said Culley was arrested at Tbilisi Airport after a suspicious subject was found in her bag. The suspected drugs seized are the main evidence in the case.
Culley's Georgian lawyer sought her release on bail. They told reporters: 'My client is currently exercising the right to remain silent, so we will provide detailed information later, once they decide how to proceed.
She told the court she chose to remain silent about the charges brought against her
Culley's alleged offences have been covered by local news outlets in ex-Soviet nation, Georgia
'A formal request must be submitted to the relevant authority, and then more detailed information regarding my client can be provided.
'At this stage, [she is] invoking [her] right to silence, and further developments will be shared later once a decision is made.'
She had recently finished a course at Middlesbrough College with the aim of becoming a nurse and was due to speak to her mother Leannae Kennedy on Saturday.
Her father Neil Culley flew out to Thailand with his sister Kerrie Culley to try to get answers after they did not hear from her.
It then emerged she had been arrested in Tbilisi, nearly 4,000 miles away from her last known location near Bangkok.
She now faces time in Tbilisi Prison No.5, Georgia's only female prison.
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report into the lock up previously criticised the 'severely overcrowded' facility after they alongside Amnesty International and Penal Reform International urged the Georgian government to end ill-treatment in their prisons in 2006.
All the cells in the Georgian prison were said to have smelled 'strongly of human sweat, human excrement, and cigarette smoke,' according to the 2006 report
The alleged suitcase of British citizen Bella May Culley, 18
The teenager had shared her holiday pictures on Instagram regularly and had stayed in touch with her family
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CPT) described the conditions at No 5 as 'degrading', 'inhuman' and as such 'an affront to a civilised society' that same year.
A HRW report also detailed the facility as being in a 'state of disrepair' at the time, with 'crumbling' walls and floors with some inmates having to sit on 'two tier metal bunk beds' when they were not sleeping.
The bathroom were described as 'decaying and flithy', while all the cells were said to have smelled 'strongly of human sweat, human excrement, and cigarette smoke,' with garbage also found scattered near cell doors.
Before police confirmed Culley's arrest, her mother Lyanne told Teesside Live: 'She flew out to the Philippines after Easter with a friend and she was there for three weeks.
'She was posting loads of pictures and then she went to Thailand on about May 3.
'The last message she sent was to me and that was on Saturday at 5.30pm saying she was going to Facetime me later.
'That was the last message anyone has received from what we can figure out up to now.
'I'm just waiting on her dad who is now in Bangkok to get back with any more information. I just want her home and safe or to hear her gorgeous little voice.'
Her distraught mother had also told the Sun that she had a bad feeling about the 18-year-old's trip to Thailand.
'I really didn't want her to go to Thailand. I begged her to come home. I don't trust some of the boys over there,' she said.
'But she wanted to meet up with some friends she made over there on a previous trip. I don't know who any of them are.'
When Culley's father Neil was told by officers at the Bangkok police station to contact the country's immigration bureau to figure out where she was last staying.
The family previously contacted an airline, who revealed that Culley had made a request for a ticket but the payment never went through.
Lyanne said: 'When she stopped answering messages I assumed it was because she was flying back to surprise me. But then nothing.'
The distraught mother added: 'We think she was last near Pattaya, and was supposed to fly back from Bangkok via Frankfurt according to the itinerary.'
'But I never heard anything about picking her up.'
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