British teenager faces LIFE in a hellhole prison after being accused of smuggling 30 pounds of cannabis into the ex-Soviet nation: Mystery remains after 18-year-old's family pleaded for help when she 'vanished in Thailand'... then was arrested in Georgia

A British teen accused of smuggling 30 pounds cannabis done an ex-Soviet federation airdrome present faces beingness down bars successful a 'decaying and overcrowded' prison. 

Bella May Culley, 18, sparked a monolithic planetary hunt cognition successful caller days aft she was reported missing portion she was believed to beryllium holidaying successful Thailand.  

Last nighttime it was revealed the teen, from Billingham, County Durham, had been arrested 4,000 miles distant connected cause offences successful Georgia. 

Footage shared by section broadcasters appeared to amusement the 18-year-old being walked into the Central Criminal Police Department successful Tbilisi portion successful handcuffs.

Culley had allegedly being caught carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis into the ex-Soviet federation aft she was flagged during a scanner cheque astatine Tbilisi International Airport. 

During an inspection, '34 hermetically sealed packages containing marijuana were recovered successful the passenger’s bag, arsenic good arsenic 20 packages of hashish,' section media has claimed. 

The 18-year-old was reportedly charged with illegally purchasing and storing a peculiarly ample magnitude of narcotics, illegally purchasing and storing the narcotic cause marijuana, and illegally importing it into Georgia.

The country's Interior Ministry has said the committed transgression 'envisions up to 20 years - oregon beingness imprisonment,' and portion she requested bail, the justice overseeing the lawsuit decided to imprison her arsenic she posed a formation risk, section media reported. 

Now, the British teen could look 2 decades oregon much down bars successful the country's lone pistillate prison, Tbilisi Prison No.5, located 45 minutes distant from the ex-Soviet capital. 

Stark photographs of the facilities sterile interior amusement what the beingness the teen could look if convicted and sentenced to imprisonment successful Georgia - successful a fastener up reports accidental is decaying.

When reports archetypal emerged of Culley vanishing, it was believed she was connected vacation successful southeast Asia, arsenic she was past believed to beryllium successful the Pattaya area, adjacent Bangkok. Her telephone was besides believed to person been turned off.

Cleveland Police person since said authorities successful Georgia person confirmed that 'an 18-year-old pistillate from Billingham' had been arrested 'on suspicion of drugs offences and that she remains successful their custody.' 

The teenager's household antecedently said she archetypal flew retired to the Philippines conscionable after Easter this twelvemonth and had past flown to Thailand astir May 3. 

Culley had been regularly posting connected societal media and past shared a representation to Facebook connected Monday, May 5. 

Her distraught household initially appealed for assistance to hint her whereabouts, with constabulary successful Thailand besides progressive successful the search. 

Culley, who precocious finished a people astatine Middlesbrough College with the purpose of becoming a nurse, was successful regular interaction with her parent Lyanne Kennedy.

 She was scheduled to talk with her connected Saturday. Her begetter Neil Culley and her aunt, Kerrie, had travelled to the southeast Asian state successful a bid to get answers.

But now, she faces clip in Tbilisi Prison No.5.  

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report into the fastener up antecedently criticised the 'severely overcrowded' installation aft they alongside Amnesty International and Penal Reform International urged the Georgian authorities to extremity ill-treatment successful their prisons successful 2006. 

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman oregon Degrading Treatment (CPT) described the conditions astatine No 5 arsenic 'degrading', 'inhuman' and arsenic specified 'an affront to a civilised society' that aforesaid year. 

A HRW study besides elaborate the installation arsenic being successful a 'state of disrepair' astatine the time, with 'crumbling' walls and floors with immoderate inmates having to beryllium connected 'two tier metallic bunk beds' erstwhile they were not sleeping. 

The bath were described arsenic 'decaying and flithy', portion each the cells were said to person smelled 'strongly of quality sweat, quality excrement, and cigaret smoke,' with garbage besides recovered scattered adjacent compartment doors. 

Before constabulary confirmed Culley's arrest, her parent Lyanne told Teesside Live: 'She flew retired to the Philippines aft Easter with a person and she was determination for 3 weeks. 

'She was posting loads of pictures and past she went to Thailand connected astir May 3.

'The past connection she sent was to maine and that was connected Saturday astatine 5.30pm saying she was going to Facetime maine later. 

'That was the past connection anyone has received from what we tin fig retired up to now.

'I'm conscionable waiting connected her dada who is present successful Bangkok to get backmost with immoderate much information. I conscionable privation her location and harmless oregon to perceive her gorgeous small voice.'

Her distraught parent had besides told the Sun that she had a atrocious feeling astir the 18-year-old's travel to Thailand.

'I truly didn't privation her to spell to Thailand. I begged her to travel home. I don't spot immoderate of the boys implicit there,' she said. 

'But she wanted to conscionable up with immoderate friends she made implicit determination connected a erstwhile trip. I don't cognize who immoderate of them are.'

When Culley's begetter Neil was told by officers astatine the Bangkok constabulary presumption to contact the country's migration bureau to fig retired wherever she was past staying. 

The household antecedently contacted an airline, who revealed that Culley had made a petition for a summons but the outgo ne'er went through.

Lyanne said: 'When she stopped answering messages I assumed it was due to the fact that she was flying backmost to astonishment me. But past nothing.' 

The distraught parent added: 'We deliberation she was past adjacent Pattaya, and was expected to alert backmost from Bangkok via Frankfurt according to the itinerary.'

'But I ne'er heard thing astir picking her up.'