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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has left London after agreeing a US plea deal that will see him plead guilty to a spying charge and go free.
Assange was locked in a lengthy legal battle over his extradition with American authorities, including years living in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy from 2012 before detention in HMP Belmarsh.
He was sought by the US since Wikileaks published hundreds of thousands of secret documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Assange left Britain on a charter flight to plead guilty on a single spying charge at court in a US Pacific territory.
Evening Standard home affairs editor Martin Bentham examines what’s next in the legal case and Assange’s timeline of being locked up in London.
Plus, in part two, we look at the increasing price of a pint of beer in London - which has reached, on average, a frothy £6.75.
Evening Standard business editor Jonathan Prynn discusses the soaring costs hitting the capital’s hospitality sector.
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[@robertyoung8785]

14 years locked up for exposing American war crimes, our British government should be ashamed for their part in this injustice.

[@davidlynch9049]

Lol. He was not locked up for 14 years. He was living the high life with sympathetic rich people in England, when that ran out, noting his servant Manning was rotting in jail, he fled to an embassy that had terrible human rights abuses. You have drank the Assand Kool aid

[@robertyoung8785]

@@davidlynch9049 well guess who's swallowed all the American nonsense, he's a hero for exposing American war crimes, but you're obviously o.k. with American murdering innocents.

[@ric8248]

​@@davidlynch9049that is the most stupid comment l've read all year

[@TimHollingworth]

The whole debacle should never have been dragged out for so long. He was doing what the mainstream media should have. His publishing, revealing wrong doing by a government, can't be a bad thing.

[@superted6960]

Shouldn't have skipped bail. Self inflicted. Total prat

[@robertyoung8785]

​@@superted6960, so you're happy with American war crimes..

[@tommythompson7941]

Leave this dude alone for goodness sake! I hope he loves getting home and enjoying Oz with his wife and children, and peace and quiet. Heal quickly or at least try to recover those 'wasted years.'

[@favesongslist]

I am still waiting to see what happens to Assange at his US trial in Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory.

[@user-hv2xj8cy1z]

非常感谢您们的支持和关心！

[@vincescotian8083]

On arrival banished to a Gulag in OZ a place in crock infested far north Queensland way past the black stump and with no access to internet.

[@T-Vexed]

Thank goodness.

[@FIONA21ful]

Im so pleased hes free...but how free is he?

[@huey1751]

im glad he is free and i hope he gets to enjoy the rest of his life but it angers and disgusts me that he is having to plead guilty t a crime when he is one o fthe greatest heros of democracy and truth the world has ever seen

[@annharold5822]

Will he be free though…i smell a rat

[@johnnewton7075]

... Hoping that the airplane doesn't crash somewhere .... (then Putin would be guilty!) ... Irony off!

[@jimmyjimmy8859]

Because they know trump his going to release him, so they think they might as well get the glory.

[@jedaaa]

Yes yes, a right wing republican ( whatever happened to independent) is going to set a Liberal exponent of free speech free! Yeah, suuuuuuure

[@barbredgreen3403]

Nonsense. He was charged under the Trump administration, think about that!

[@hyhgtsssassfilj]

Re-arrested and extradited to the US. Hopefully.

[@jedaaa]

He was working in your interests dummmy

[@user-wb7cx5uo1n]

Should have been left to rot in jail

[@havebadday7850]

Why

[@paymydues]

@@havebadday7850 Yes why, unless the comment is by a troll?

[@GavinGas]

First Nelson now Assange. Who's next? Letby?

[@firekind1980]

You seem confused.

[@GavinGas]

@@firekind1980 you seem considerably confused.

[@firekind1980]

@@GavinGas How so? You seem to be the one calling a baby killer a hero.

[@jedaaa]

' oh look, I'm a hyper reactionary idiot'

[@E-Kat]

It's hot outside, get some ice on your brain.

[@projectcontractors]

Obama releasing Assange to win a 4th term

[@9dravah9]

That's not gonna fly ..... Obama would have to walk hand in hand with the resurrected Christ before he stood a chance of securing the election for the Democrats .... and with Trump leading the field the way he is, that would probably be a fifty-fifty bet.

[@jedaaa]

Well since Obama is not in power to do that and is not running for a third term ... it would be third if he were running

[@E-Kat]

😂🤣, Obummer, easy on that potion!

[@SGProductions87]

@@jedaaa Depends what you believe. Some say he is orchestrating Biden behind the scenes.