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The family of a pregnant British teenager, Bella Culley, has confirmed they paid $187,000 (140,000) to a Georgian court on Tuesday to secure her release. It followed her arrest on drug smuggling charges earlier this year. Nineteen-year-old Ms Culley, from Billingham, northeast England, was apprehended at Tbilisi airport in May upon her arrival in the South Caucasus nation. Her arrest followed a period where she had been reported missing in Thailand.