WikiLeaks founder baffled by sex assault claims [View All]

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WikiLeaks founder baffled by sex assault claims

* Marie Colvin
* From: The Sunday Times
* December 27, 2010 12:00AM

ONE of the women claiming she was sexually assaulted by Julian Assange took a "trophy photo" of him lying naked in her bed, he says.

The white-haired computer impresario had been invited to stay in her empty flat when he visited Stockholm to give a lecture last August, shortly after WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of classified US documents on the Afghanistan war.

Mr Assange, 39, and unmarried, said the woman had returned home early and insisted he sleep in her bed. He does not feel he needs any excuses for what happened next. "We went to bed, and things went on from there," he said.

However, the 31-year-old woman, who is identified in legal documents as Miss A, subsequently went to the police.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-founder-baffled-by-sex-assault-claims/story-fn775xjq-1225976459286