Overview

• Bella May Culley, 18, was arrested at Tbilisi airport on May 11 when Georgian officers found 31lb of cannabis and hashish in her luggage.
• Charlotte May Lee, 21, a former flight attendant, was detained in Colombo on May 12 with two suitcases containing 46kg of synthetic kush.
• Culley disclosed her pregnancy in a Tbilisi court, intensifying worries about healthcare access and child welfare in Georgia’s only female penitentiary.
• Drawing on her own three-year sentence in Peru, Michaella McCollum warned of maggot-infested food, cockroach-infested cells and said most women in such cases are coerced rather than motivated by profit.
• Investigators are probing possible ties between the cases, noting both women departed Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport and mentioned meeting unidentified men during their travels.