BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra is in Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told Agence France-Presse Saturday, after fleeing the country to avoid a court ruling in a vanishing act that stunned many Thais.

Yingluck, 50, was due on Friday morning to arrive at the Supreme Court for the ruling in her trial for criminal negligence that could have seen her jailed for 10 years.

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