Assange gets 50 weeks for bail jump

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks for breaching his bail after a judge said his case has cost the taxpayer £16 million. Assange, 47, holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge for six and a half years rather than facing justice and surrendering to the court. He claimed he only jumped bail because he was ‘terrified’ of being sent to the US for trial for leaking secrets. Assange was frogmarched out of the embassy on…