Overview
- Formal sentencing is scheduled next week in Tbilisi after prosecutors notified her of a two-year term.
- Culley has been transferred from Rustavi Prison Number Five to a prison mother-and-baby unit as she is due to give birth in December.
- Her parents paid 500,000 Georgian lari (about £138,000) to the court, which her lawyer says influences sentence length but does not secure release.
- She pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into Georgia, with her lawyer saying she flew from Thailand via the United Arab Emirates.
- Georgian authorities say 11kg of cannabis and more than 400g of hashish were found in her luggage, while her mother describes previously harsh prison conditions including communal showers and makeshift meals.