A British teenager arrested for smuggling drugs into Georgia after disappearing while travelling in Thailand has claimed she is pregnant.

Thai police claim Bella May Culley, 18, may have been “lured by criminals” into becoming a mule in exchange for a “holiday of a lifetime” before she vanished from a beach resort, only to appear in court 4,000 miles away.

Ms Culley had arrived in Thailand from the Philippines and shared travelling photos on social media including a post flaunting cash and comparing herself to Bonnie and Clyde.

On Tuesday, it was revealed she had been arrested at Tbilisi airport with “34 hermetically sealed packages containing marijuana … as well as 20 packages of hashish”.