Rapper Slick Rick released from jail

Rapper Ricky “Slick Rick” Walters said today he still cannot believe he was freed from jail more than 17 months after US officials moved to deport the British-born star and locked him up.

Walters boarded a plane at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, bound for New York and home to see his wife and two children. He told reporters his family was happy the ordeal was over.