Assange Sets To Meet Children For First Time Outside Prison Walls

Julian Assange has met his children for the first time outside the visitor’s room of Belmarsh maximum security prison for the first time following the actualisation of the plea bargain deal that set him free from prison after years in confinement.

GWG.ng earlier reported that Julian left Belmarsh prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. 

According to a post by WikiLeaks on its official X handle, Assange was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

Julian Assange’s wife, Stella Morris, met him when she was 28 years old, while she went to work with him as a journalist. The two soon fell in love, having discovered that they had a lot in common.

Before Assange was sent to prison on April 11, 2019, Stella already secretly had their children; Gabriel and Max who are now 7 years and 5 years, respectively.

Amidst controversies, Stella took a bold step to get married to Assange in October 2022, at the Belmarsh high-security prison in south-east London.

On Tuesday, Stella who couldn’t contain her excitement after the announcement of Assange’s release said she was “elated” and it was “incredible” her husband was set to be freed following a 14-year legal battle.

Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

The deal marks the end of a legal saga that has seen Assange spend more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London

“He will be a free man once it has been signed off by the judge and that will happen sometime tomorrow,” she said speaking from Sydney, Australia, where Assange is expected to head after he appears in a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan.

She said she had flown to Australia on Sunday with the pair’s two children, aged 7 and 5, and had told them there was a “big surprise” coming but that she hadn’t been certain of what would happen until the last minute..

“It’s been so touch-and-go, we weren’t really sure until the last 24 hours that it was actually happening,” she said.

She said she didn’t want to say too much before the U.S. judge signs off on the deal.

“It’s just incredible. It … feels like it’s not real,” she said.

GWG.ng gathered that the family were reportedly notified less than 24 hours before Assange’s release from Belmarsh prison, where he has spent more than five years fighting extradition to the United States since being forced to leave the Ecuadorian embassy.

After reaching a plea deal with US authorities, which is set to be formalised early on Wednesday, he was allowed to board a plane at Stansted Airport.

AAfter the plea and sentencing hearing, scheduled for Wednesday morning local time in the Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Western Pacific, he is due to return to his native Australia.

Stella Assange added their children, Gabriel and Max, had never seen their father outside of the visitors’ room at the London prison..

Reuters disclosed that Stella said she had always believed this moment would come but she would not relax until he had arrived in Australia, where he is expected on Wednesday. She said on Tuesday morning that she had still not broken the news to their children.

“I feel elated. I also feel worried, you know, because I’m so used to this. Anything could happen. I’m worried that until it’s fully signed off, I worry, but it looks like we’ve got there,” she said, speaking from Sydney.

“I’ll really believe it when I have him in front of me and I can take him and hug him and then it will be real you know?”

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