Police are no longer guarding the Ecuadorian Embassy where Wikileaks' Julian Assange has been taking refuge, Scotland Yard says.
The founder of the controversial whistleblowing website has been hiding out at the diplomatic mission since 2012.
He fled there are being sought in Sweden which wanted to extradite him in connection with sex allegations.
It is estimated to have cost British police forces more than £12m to have the embassy guarded in case he left the building.
The round-the-clock police presence has become increasingly controversial as cost has spiralled with no sign of an end to the legal stand-off between Assange and Swedish prosecutors.
He was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant in December 2010 and told he would have to answer an extradition hearing.
The Australian claims that if he was to go to Sweden he could be handed over the US authorities for prosecution over WikiLeaks disclosures.
In a statement the Metrop
