Warner leaves prison in an ambulance

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner left a Trinidad jail by ambulance on Thursday, a day after he was charged in a US corruption case that has led to the arrests of more than a dozen international soccer officials and businessmen.

Judicial officer Ibrahim Ali said the 72-year-old Warner complained of exhaustion and was not able to face questions from reporters gathered for several hours outside the jail in this twin-island Caribbean nation off the coast of Venezuela.

But a short while later, Warner donned a cap and a garland of flowers to give a lengthy, defiant speech before a crowd of raucous supporters in the district he represents as an opposition member of parliament.