Scotland Yard says it still intends to arrest WikiLeaks founder whether he leaves embassy but it is ‘no longer proportionate’ to monitor building[br]Scotland Yard has called off its multimillion pound 24-hour surveillance of the Ecuadorian embassy where Julian Assange has been living for 40 months,having decided the operation is “no longer proportionate”.
The WikiLeaks founder, an Australian national, and sought political asylum at the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden,where prosecutors want to question him over rape allegations. In August they dropped their investigation into two other claims – one of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion – because they ran out of time to question him.
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Source: theguardian.com