The Metro – Freed Assange is owning home
Julian Assange is featured on the front of Metro, which reports he headed towards London Stansted Airport where he boarded a private charter plane understood to have cost £400,000. Elsewhere, Conservative David Simmonds, Labour’s Wes Streeting, Lib Dem’s Daisy Cooper, Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski, Reform’s Alex Wilson and former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford are all pictured following a hustings event hosted by the paper.
How Julian Assange went from facing stealth rape claims to private jet to freedom
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in the UK as part of a plea deal with the US government. The 52-year-old – who came to the international spotlight in 2010 after publishing a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning – was today freed from the high security Belmarsh jail in London. [https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/25/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-freed-london-jail-us-plea-deal-21097179/?ico=trending-module_category_uk_item-6]
Constance Marten and Mark Gordon guilty on two charges over baby death
Aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon will face a retrial for the manslaughter of their newborn daughter next year. It comes after a jury at the Old Bailey failed to agree verdicts following a trial lasting six months. However, it can now be reported the couple were found guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice. [https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/26/constance-marten-mark-gordon-will-face-retrial-baby-death-21108150/?ico=top-stories_home_top]
Gareth Southgate sends warning to England fans who pelted him with beer cups after Slovenia bore draw
Gareth Southgate has hit back at the England supporters who jeered and threw empty beer cups at the Three Lions boss following the Euro 2024 draw with Slovenia. England progressed to the knockout stages as Group C winners but turned in another underwhelming display in a dull stalemate on Tuesday evening. [https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/25/gareth-southgate-warning-england-fans-threw-beer-cups-slovenia-draw-21104490/?ico=mosaic_home]
Editorial 26 June 2024.
Many of Wednesday’s newspapers focus on the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – who agreed to a plea deal that has seen him set free. He is en route to his native Australia ending a years-long legal battle.
Elsewhere, the betting scandal is also splashed on the papers as another Tory has been implicated in the scandal, and Labour has also found itself wrapped up in the political mess.
Labour has been out and about spreading its election messaging in this morning’s newspaper briefings – convincing readers that the party has changed since 2019 and sharing plans of how they’ll improve the NHS.
Many of the papers feature pictures of Harry Kane as England are through to the Round of 16 at the Euros – although the team’s performance has been widely panned for being flat and boring.