Thai prisoner released three years late after clerical error

A Thai man was released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said today.

Kamjai Khong Thavorn, 53, should have been released in 2007 after serving a 20-year sentence for heroin possession but a clerical error wrongly stated his first year in prison as 1997 instead of 1987, the Jakarta Globe reported.