Britain is reported to have granted a 10-year visa to former Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who has been sentenced in absentia to a five-year prison term back home for her role in her government’s rice-pledging scandal, according to the Strait Times. Responding to the recent sighting in public of Yingluck along with an unidentified Thai woman in London, Thanakit Worathanachakul, a senior prosecutor at the Office of the Attorney-General, said the former premier could obtained a five-year visa to stay in the UK and eligible to extend for another five years. Thailand’s deputy junta leader has accused three police officers of helping sneak Yingluck out of the country in August, a vanishing act that stunned the country.