British teenager Bella May Culley is facing a life sentence for alleged drug trafficking in Georgia — but social media posts have signalled the teen may have already been in trouble.
Like most people her age, Bella loved social media, sharing her travels almost daily while abroad and sharing photos in glamorous places.
But some of the posts have raised eyebrows.
In one photo, Bella held wads of cash tied up with a silk hairband, captioned: ‘But nothing hurts when I’m with youuuuu’
Another showed Bella in a bikini, with a caption alluding to a Bonnie and Clyde-like scenario.
‘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 all over the world?
‘I don’t care if we on the run baby, long as I’m next to you,’ she said.
Another photo showed Bella smoking a joint while riding in the passenger seat of a car.
Just yesterday, her family revealed she spent time with a mystery man called ‘Russ’ – further deepening the mystery.
The Billingham, County Durham resident told a Tbilisi court on Wednesday that she is pregnant.
Her grandad revealed that Bella was meeting a man she ‘used to go out with’ during her dream holiday in Southeast Asia.
William Culley, 80, said: ‘She went to the Philippines to see somebody, a lad there, who she used to go out with a couple of years ago, who was working out there.
‘She said, “I’m going on my own, but I’m meeting Ross out there.” Or Russ, I’m not sure what his name is.
‘He was working out there for his father’s company or something – but now I wonder if what she told me was true.’
Bella’s social media did show her in the company of an unknown man, though he was never clearly photographed or filmed.
He added: ‘Last night they were told they could see her in the morning. They said they’d ring me straight after they had seen her, but I haven’t had a call. They must still be waiting.’
Culley is currently being held but could face the prospect of calling the Georgian capital’s infamous Prison No.5 her new home.
A report by the Human Rights Watch in 2006 found the prison to be ‘severely overcrowded’ while the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CPT) called conditions ‘degrading’ and ‘inhuman and constitute ‘an affront to a civilised society’ that same year.
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