Wikileaks founder Julian Assange plans to marry the mother of his two children inside HMP Belmarsh, it emerged today.
The Australian activist, who turns 50 this week, has spent more than two years inside the maximum security prison as he awaits possible extradition to the US for releasing confidential military records.
Mr Assange started a secret relationship with South African lawyer Stella Moris, 38, while confined to the Ecuadorian embassy, fathering two sons, Gabriel, four, and Max, two, while claiming political asylum to avoid deportation.
The pair got engaged in 2016, and Ms Moris has now revealed they want to get married as soon as possible rather than waiting for the legal proceedings to go on any longer.
‘The most likely thing is that we’ll get married in the prison and then we’ll have another kind of wedding celebration with friends and family once once he’s free’, she told news agency DPA.
‘We have spoken to the Belmarsh chaplain services about it and they said they haven’t seen a wedding in Belmarsh for as long as they’ve been there, which is 12 years. So it’s not a straightforward thing to do.’
This story first appeared in Daily Mail
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