Chelsea Manning will be freed in five months after President Obama reduced her remaining prison sentence for leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks.

Manning, from Pembrokeshire, was convicted in 2010 of the huge American military and diplomatic information leak and sentenced to 35 years.

Mr Obama has said Manning is set to be freed on 17 May 2017, instead of in 2045.

She has served more than two years and five months of her sentence.

Manning's family has told ITV News the commutation is "absolutely amazing" news.

Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb said it was an "act of mercy and compassion in the closing days of the Obama presidency".

Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she was deployed to Iraq in late 2009 as a low-level intelligence analyst.

She copied 250,000 diplomatic cables from American embassies around the world and hundreds of thousands of military incident logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The classified information was disclosed by Wikileaks, who worked with news organisations.

After her sentencing, Manning announced that she was transgender and changed her name to Chelsea.