Julian Assange bail backers urged to convince him to leave embassy

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By METRO NEWS REPORTER
4th September, 2012

The high-profile bail backers of Julian Assange should persuade the WikiLeaks founder 'to surrender himself to the UK authorities', the chief magistrate has said ...

Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle said the sureties should be telling Assange, who is currently holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London: 'We trusted you and put our faith in you - now come back.'

He added: 'At the moment I am not persuaded that there any reasons that securities would not be using every effort, publicly or privately, to persuade Assange to surrender himself to the UK authorities. I might change my mind but that’s my position now.'

The group, which includes two members of the British aristocracy and a Nobel Prize winner, have until October 3 to show the court why they should not lose the money ...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/910762-julian-assange-bail-backers-urged-to-convince-him-to-leave-embassy

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. LOL! You're so funny...

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2. Pure BS - IMHO -- n/t

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3. ... Adjourning the hearing until 3 October, Riddle said those guaranteeing bail had a month

to persuade Assange to surrender to police if they wanted their money back ...

Julian Assange backers could lose £340,000 in bail money
WikiLeaks founder's supporters have already forfeited £200,000 and risk £140,000 more if Assange refuses to surrender to police
Shiv Malik and agencies
Tuesday 4 September 2012 13.24 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/04/julian-assange-backers-lose-bail?newsfeed=true

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4. ... Henry Blaxland QC representing four of the backers, said none ... could ... reach him

to persuade him to change his mind ...

Assange supporters to lose out after breach of bail conditions
Paul Cheston , Jonathan Brown
Tuesday 04 September 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/assange-supporters-to-lose-out-after-breach-of-bail-conditions-8104882.html

Where could he be? It's a complete frickin mystery! Ecuadorian embassy? Where's that? Quito? Stockholm? Nobody could be expected to be able to find the Ecuadorian embassy!