Overview

• Michaella McCollum, who served three years at a Lima jail for smuggling cocaine, has gone public to alert Bella Culley and Charlotte Lee about the severity of foreign prison life.
• Bella Culley, 18, is held in a Soviet-style Georgian prison after a 31lb cannabis and hashish haul at Tbilisi airport and has disclosed she is pregnant.
• Charlotte Lee, 21, remains detained in Sri Lanka after authorities found 46kg of high-potency cannabis in her hotel room and reports indicate she has been denied essential medical treatment.
• McCollum warned both could face sentences approaching 20 years and said pregnancy complications and harsh detention conditions would intensify their ordeal.
• Their cases highlight a growing pattern of young British travellers being manipulated by traffickers exploiting relaxed drug laws in parts of Southeast Asia.