Overview

• Prosecutors told Tbilisi City Court that plea negotiations are being finalised and the hearing was postponed.
• Judge Giorgi Gelashvili gave Culley’s family until October 28 to provide funds that would enable immediate release or sentencing talks will begin on November 2.
• The Daily Mail and The Sun report a required payment of £215,000, a figure not confirmed in court documents.
• Culley, 19 and about six months pregnant, remains detained at Women’s Penitentiary No. 5 as relatives work to raise the money.
• She was arrested in May at Tbilisi International Airport after drugs were found in her luggage, and she asserts she was coerced by criminal networks during travel in Thailand.