{"id":71882,"date":"2025-05-20T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/19\/young-british-woman-held-on-drug-charges-in-sri-lanka-could-be-linked-to-culley-case"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:46:09","slug":"young-british-woman-held-on-drug-charges-in-sri-lanka-could-be-linked-to-culley-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71882","title":{"rendered":"Young British woman held on drug charges in Sri Lanka could be linked to Culley case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlier<\/p>\n<p>Within a day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/15\/british-teenager-being-held-in-georgia-on-drug-charges-bella-culley\">Bella May Culley being arrested<\/a> at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the same fate met another Briton 3,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>As Charlotte May Lee stepped off her flight at Bandaranaike International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka last Monday, the 21-year-old former cabin attendant was arrested for an alleged attempt to bring in \u00a31.2m worth of a synthetic cannabis strain known as kush in her two suitcases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/19\/young-british-woman-held-on-drug-charges-in-sri-lanka-could-be-linked-to-culley-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,886,372,61,674,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cannabis","category-drugs","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71883,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71882\/revisions\/71883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}