Watch: Bella Culley arrives at Luton Airport

Pregnant teenager Bella Culley, who admitted drug trafficking charges in Georgia, arrived home on Tuesday after being freed from prison.

Now eight months pregnant, she had spent five months and 24 days in custody at Georgia's Rustavi Prison Number Five.

The 19-year-old from Teesside had initially faced a possible 20 years in jail, but prosecutors made a last-minute change to the terms of a plea deal and, given her age and pregnancy, decided to free her.

Miss Culley was detained on 10 May having been arrested at Tbilisi International Airport when 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish were found in her luggage.

Her family had recently paid £137,000 to reduce her sentence to two years.

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