Thai king pardons man who defaced his portrait - Update

Thailand's king has pardoned a Swiss man who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for defacing images of him.

Oliver Jufer was sentenced last month, after he admitted spray-painting images of the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the city of Chiang Mai.



Mr Jufer has been ordered to leave the country and was due to be deported by the end of the day.

"The king in his kindness has granted him a pardon and he has been transferred from prison and is in the process of being deported from the country," said Chiang Mai police Col Prachuab Wongsuk.