Julian Assange case; how much did that cost UK taxpayers?

be nice if their citizens could show up in court when they mow down a kid on his motorbike

An absolute disgrace the way he was treated by our authorities.

When has it been ok to jail journalists?

He's played the victim to perfection hasn't he.

And now he's gone

An absolute disgrace the way he was treated by our authorities.

When has it been ok to jail journalists?

He's not the 'journalist' we've been told he is over the last 20 years.
Maybe he started out as one, but he's been actively involved behind the scenes in several political-billionaire 'gangs' in a few countries over the last 15 years.

I used to think he was a bit of a hero, now I think he's a bit of a villain, He's definitely not a journalist.

Is it coincidence that Conservative government is about to fall after 15 years, and just 8 days before the collapse of rome, lasange is suddenly flown out?

probably coincidence eh?

Interesting to see if he continues to publish Putin's hacks.

Maybe he's suffered enough

They would have let him go years ago if he had put a dress on like Bradley did.

I'm not political esp on matters abroad. I think Mr Assange has paid a very high price for releasing a picture to the world showing US army personnel in a helicopter firing at civilians in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

What his organisation did was clearly wrong, according to some, but in the interest of the civilians who were killed in that video clip it was the correct thing to do ie show the world the plight of innocent civilians in the event of a war abroad; atrocities do exist and used by both sides to exact revenge sometimes.

Mr Assange clearly did not kill anymore personally; his organisation WikiLeads may have put US intelligence personnel at risk, but it does not mean the founder is wholly responsible for what might have happened to US intelligence personnel in the Iraqi war as a result of that video clip. He did not commit the heinous crime of bombing an American city or 9/11. Would he have been subjected to this treatment if it was Russia or China?

I'm glad this is all over. He's been forgotten by some (not journalists) for a long time.

Remember, it was the US which invaded Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

It is certainly costing the media a lot of (our) money covering this farce. We all have to troop off to a small island in the Pacific and now to Canberra to watch a plane land. I truly hope that he recedes into anonymity but I fear he won't. He is a criminal and has been let off lightly.

Criminal? That's very harsh. Head honchos of corporates eg ocean liners, aeroplanes (Boeing), entities (Union Carbide/BP), etc, committed serious criminality involving deaths and destruction of vast areas of beautiful natural environment and wildlife yet went off scot-free in court. The remedy was pitiful compensation in a foreign court eg Union Carbide.

3 or 4 gobsh1tes at airport to greet him on his £400k plane

And who paid for the plane? He is a convicted criminal. He even pleaded guilty!!

Crowd funder and loan.

The media circus surrounding him domestic and international for all these years will all have contributed to the UK economy.

Assange has probably turned a profit for Dear Old Blighty

Absolute shower of khoonts on this thread .. as per

I make regular small contributions to WikiLeads as I use it fairly often for information. Similarly, The Guardian Newspaper.
I appreciate their existence and availability.

Quite right, imp123.

Julian Assange wasn't making things up, his only "crime" was to bring to light truths.

If you can't handle the truth..you might have an issue with him now. As far as I know, there is no evidence that he suppressed intel for political reasons.

I mean, we're burning £1.4 billion of unusable PPE equipment but whining about the cost of keeping one person prisoner for publishing the truth?

Am I missing anything?

Am I missing anything?

Yes. All public money should be precious. Did you ever hear the expression, Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

Assange in many ways showed the likes of the US, UK etc... do not have real fully functioning democracy and thats their real problem.

The Governments allow the public only to see what they think they should see. Assange is not a criminal. Where a country/Govt outlaws the reporting of criminal activity, that country/Govt is in itself a criminal enterprise.

The UK locking him up for this long is a total skid stain event in UK history and shameful. It only confirms the UK is a poodle for the US.
Where were the US govt when that cretin killed Harry Dunn and done a runner?

The ridiculousness of not being able to storm the Ecuadorian embassy where he was holed up was laughable, this nonsense of embassy's being foreign territory where you need permission to enter has to end, could you imagine the Americans parking their cops outside in their country 24 hours a day spending tax payers money waiting for someone to come out on his own accord. They would never be seen to be so weak and would pay the legal consequences afterwards.

The Harry Dunn case and the refusal of those parasites at the American embassy in London refusing to pay the congestion charge simply demonstrates that some people are above the law, never let it be peddled that nobody is above the law as these case prove that wrong. Kind Regards.