Julian Assange’s secret escape plan made public – The Times …

LONDON: Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 had plans to escape his asylum with the help of a fancy dress, it has been revealed.

Leaked documents have confirmed that growing pressure from US and the UK to lift their hand of protection from Assange and the whistleblower's eccentric behaviour had forced Ecuadorian to draw up plausible and bizarre plans to allow him to leave the building and give the Scotland Yard officials standing guard outside a slip.

One of the possibilities looked at by the Ecuador officials was to dress him up in a disguise so that he could walk out of the building unnoticed.

A sudden dash into the nearly Harrods department store just a few yards away from the embassy was also an option.

Britain recently lodged a formal protest to Ecuador over the country's decision to harbour Assange by giving him asylum in their embassy in London. The protest came days after Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation into an allegation of sexual molestation and an accusation of unlawful coercion against Assange because they ran out of time to question him.

Britain has spent 12 million since 2012 policing out the Ecuador embassy to nab Assange is he steps out.

Britain is now desperately trying to get Ecuador to let the Swedish investigators to question Assange. Under Swedish law, charges cannot be laid without interviewing the suspect.

One of the documents made public said, "Assange could leave in fancy dress or try a discreet exit. He can try to reach a nearby helipad across the rooftops, or he could get lost among the people in Harrods."

The documents have been reported by Ecuadorian journalist Fernando Villavicencio and the Buzzfeed website.

The papers also documents several of Assange's eccentric activities - tampering with equipment in an off-limit security control room inside the embassy, punching a security guard or destroying a tall book shelf into bits.

Documents read "we cannot allow these incidents to be repeated, nor any further attacks against personnel who work for the embassy."

The report also notes a need to "control access to alcohol".

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