Assange £3.3m police cost an 'utter waste of money'

Name: Assange £3.3m police cost an 'utter waste of money'
Uploaded: 2013-05-20T17:56:57.000Z
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Description: It has cost £3.3m to police the embassy where Julian Assange has spent almost a year in hiding.

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The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has spent almost a year living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge.

Scotland Yard has revealed that up until March it had cost London's police service £3.3m.

Is it a "complete and utter waste of money" as one member of the public claimed?

BBC London's Guy Smith reports.

London

20 May 2013