Any sympathy for the British drug mule in Georgia?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14723481/drug-mule-suspect-company-director-Chinese-retailers-Amazon.html

I was reading about this girl and actually do have a little symapthy. She is obviously vain, stupid, misguidedly ambitious but I don't know whether she is real player in the drug trade and has probably been groomed into carrying drugs by men promising her the earth.

The penalties for drug smuggling are understandably harsh on Georgia but should the UK try and get her to serve a sentence in the UK?

She's just mad we have common sense is all 😆 this woman knew what she was doing

I do feel for her. I have an 18 year old who is very young for their age with a completely different lifestyle to this young girl but 18 year olds do silly things. I bet her parents want to shake her, ‘What were you thinking?’

I think she had some idea of what she was doing based on her social media posts eg showing off re money and crime, like she was looking for something to get involved in for the excitement. She probably still doesn’t understand the enormity of what she has done and the consequences for her.

I don’t have much sympathy at all.
However, if it was my daughter, I would be defending her and doing all I could to help her, whether she’s been a dick or not.

No, nobody does anything THAT stupid!!!

Here's another one.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14723543/Ex-Tui-stewardess-21-drugs-cannabis-sri-lanka.html

I do feel sorry for her. She's probably quite stupid, she's only 18, she most likely got caught up with a guy who groomed her and had no real idea of the enourmity of the situation she was getting involved in and the shit she'd end up in for it. Also, the sentences for this sort of crime in these countries are unreasonable and western countries should be doing what we can to hold them to account over their treatment of people and their lack of decent human rights policies.

Well the air stewardess would definitely have known what she was doing and the consequences.

None whatsoever.

She's not a child, she's an adult.

She's not a girl, she's a woman.

She fucked around and she's now finding out. Tough shit.

Georgia can keep her; we've got enough fuckwits here already.

I’m finding it really hard not to feel sorry for her. I know I shouldn’t and I know what she has done is terrible but she is so young and we just don’t know the background yet to what led up to this. She must be incredibly frightened and I don’t take any pleasure in that. I also feel incredibly sorry for her family

I imagine a lot of posters were once 18 year old girls, I doubt many chose to join criminal gangs to commit crimes in other countries.

There’s silly and then there’s carrying 12kg of cannabis and 2kg of hashish in her luggage.

I do feel some sympathy for her as some people need protecting from themselves. She doesn’t seem too switched on and should be at home in NE England, finishing up a college course, holding down a part-time job, enjoying some nights out with friends and going home to sleep in her own bed, with her childhood plushies for company. All with loving parents keeping a firm eye on what she is doing and whom she is doing it with. What she is doing smuggling drugs into Georgia I really do not know…

Unfortunately I think that her situation is likely to be a consequence of hands-off parenting. Time and time again I have read on MN that parents should ‘let children make their own mistakes’ and not ‘invade their privacy’ or ‘police their friendships’. This often works out fine, but when it doesn’t the consequences are disastrous.

I also really don’t like the salacious use of all her bikini shots in the press, but I suppose that was always a risk when she put them up on Instagram.

If convicted she should serve a sentence but I hope she gets extradited to the UK as soon as possible, especially if she is pregnant.

Drug mule?

Seriously? You think an 18 year old wouldn't understand that if they get caught smuggling drugs then they are likely to go to prison? Unbelievable.

Exactly. She’s not 5 and unaware of the rules… At her age she absolutely knew that carrying such HUGE amounts of drugs was illegal.

She’s obviously upset that she’s been caught.

But no, I have zero sympathy.

@OneBadKitty

Also, the sentences for this sort of crime in these countries are unreasonable...

Riiight...

😂

I think she knew what she was doing, but because cannabis is decriminalised in Georgia, she didn’t realise she’d be in for such a harsh punishment if caught.

I agree with @lowhanging it wouldn’t surprise me if she was a decoy to distract from a larger plot. No doubt the girl was manipulated into this but she made a choice she didn’t have to do it. I have no sympathy for her choice or for the fact that she got caught but she is facing a horrible, horrible life sentence and has potentially ruined the rest of her life. I do feel for her family they must be devastated.

It’s not a stupid mistake she knew what she was doing she bragged about the gangster lifestyle all over social media and my daughter would never have done anything like that when she was 18 as she knows the difference between right and wrong

That’s a funny article. One minute talking about the company and passport thing, ( in detail) and then secondly the drug smuggling. She’s being arrested for the drug smuggling not the passport scam ?

Look her up on Companies house, she is the director/secretary of several companies, then decide if she is an innocent that has been taken advantage of. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=bella+culley

You don’t get to choose to join a criminal gang it’s not like an application process through indeed or Linkedin. They find the victims, And groom them.
So all of those saying all I didn’t drug cartel when I was 18. You didn’t have the option, It wasn’t a decision you made

She’s from the town I grew up in, my family still live there.

It’s unsurprisingly nothing like Columbia, it’s hardly the drugs capital of the North. Nothing happens there apart from the occasional power cut at the crisp factory.

She’s a young girl, from a town that most of us would admit is essentially nowhere, who has tried to give it “billy big bollocks” and gotten caught.

My nephew knows her and is completely unsurprised. I have heard it was all related to her boyfriend. He’ll just be some idiot kid on a bike. Might have a knock off Rolex and an Audi on finance maybe.

If it was the one who wore the massive doughnut on her head the it was probably restricting blood flow to her brain!

Cannot believe they gave her a telly show as well. What a way to glamorise this crap to impressionable young girls, get yourself banged up abroad with a load of drugs and then you can have a book published, a telly show and all the staged DM pap shots you can handle.