Teenager held for drug smuggling ‘was meant to be visiting friends'
A British teenager arrested for smuggling drugs into Georgia after going missing in southeast Asia told her family that she was going to visit a friend who had moved to the Philippines.
Bella May Culley, 18, is in police custody in the former Soviet republic, accused of illegally buying, possessing and importing large quantities of narcotics, including marijuana. If found guilty, she could face life imprisonment.
Culley, from Stockton-on-Tees in Co Durham, had been travelling in Asia for the past month, where she had been scuba diving and partying on the islands of Palawan and Panay in the Philippines.
Her family last heard from her on Saturday when she was in the Thai resort city of Pattaya. They reported her missing to local police and
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