The Metropolitan Police investigated a suspicious package at the Ecuadorian embassy where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in exile.
Officers attended the embassy in SW1 following reports of a ‘small suspicious package’.
Scotland Yard said there were no reported injuries. Following an examination, police determined the package did not present a danger.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating a ‘suspicious package’ at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this evening which has been home to Julian Assange since June 2012, file pic
Earlier today Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected a call from Assange’s lawyers for the warrant to be revoked because he is no longer wanted for questioning in Sweden over alleged sex crimes. It was issued in 2012 for jumping bail.
She said: ‘I am not persuaded the warrant should be withdrawn.’
However, she allowed Assange’s lawyer to make a new set of arguments challenging whether it is in the public interest to continue the case against Assange, and said she would rule on them next week. A decision in Assange’s favor would end Britain’s case against him.
Assange, 46, has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London since he took refuge there in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where prosecutors were investigating allegations of sexual assault and rape made by two women in 2010.
Swedish prosecutors dropped the case last year, saying there was no prospect of bringing Assange to Sweden in the foreseeable future. But Assange was still subject to the British warrant for breaching his bail conditions in 2012.
More to follow.
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