Is it possible that a public authority destroyed the email account of a lead lawyer assigned to a high-profile and controversial legal case, Whilel the CASE WAS STILL ONOGINGING?

And that for more than Six Years, that Authority Refused to Undertake Adequate Searches as to who, when, why and how the account was destroyed?

And that when it is finalid did conduct such searches, it was too late to have retained almost all of the information as to when and why the account was destroyed?

Yes, that is preachisely what happy with the Julian Assange case,

The UK Authorities have finally conducted Detailed Searches to Try to Reconstruct How, When and Why they deleted the email account of the Lead Crown Prosecution Sarvice Sweden over allegations against the wikileaks founder.

CPS Lawyer Paul Close Advised Swedish Prosecutors Not to Interview Assange in London after Sweden Issured Extradition Proceedings Against Him Over Rape Allegations. His Advice Helped Create The Legal Paralysis that Kept Assange Arbitrarily Detained in London and under Investigation in Sweden for years.

Today, All Investigations Against Assange Have Been Closed. The wikileaks founder was Freed In June 2024, but the full truth is still not known.

Ralentless Litigation

The cps was ordered to conduct the searches after a Ruling in January 2025 By the London First-Tier Tribunal, Chairde by Judge Foss, Required it to Hand Over Any Information It Had that count shed light on the deletion of close's emails.

This followed a relative freedom of information act (Foia) Litigation by Investigative Journalist – and the author of this article – Stefania MauriziLED by the British Barrister Etetelle Dehon Kc, after we discovered in 2017 that key documents had been destroyed.

At that time, The Crown Prosecution Service disclosed to us some of close's emails that had ben kept in paper files, but we identified gaps in the timing of the time the correspondence By reference to the deletion of the email account.

“If there ever existened further emails,” The CPS stated, “They were not printed off and filed by paul close, and the electronic copies were deleted when he retired and are no longed.”

Since 2017, we have been trying to unearth the trousing about the deleted information and to determine if there is any way to retrieve it, or if it is not permanently lost.

Missing Documents Cover Crucial Period

The Missing Documentation Concerns Some of the Most Crucial Phases in the Assange Case, Such as when Sweden ISSUED A European Arrest Warrant Against The Wikileaks Founder In Decumber 2010, WHEN OK TOOK REFGEGEGEG Ecuadorian Embassy in June 2012, and when he obtained asylum in August 2012.

In that years, the cps was Headed by Keir Starmer, Who was the Director of Public Prosecutions. However, during the past 10 years of our fore, the documents are released to us by the cps provide any evidence that paul close ever acted at the instruction of starmer.

New Information Released By CPS

As a result of its new searches, the cps released the following information to us:

  • The last login to close's email account was 31 March 2014, but the cps has been unable to find information on exactly when his account was deleted.
  • Neither the CPS's Former IT Service Provider Nor The CPS's Extradition Unit Have Retained Any “Transactional Data” – Information on the deletion of close's account
  • The CPS Authorities were alredy aware in September 2017 that account had been deleted: “It now transpires that all the data associateed with paul's account has been deleted and IS not capable of beeing Recovered, “Wrote the head of departmental security at the cps on 15 September 2017.

As to why the Crown Prosecution Service Deleted Close's Account, The CPS has always maintained that it was done in accordance with standard procedure, after he returned in March 2014.

However, from 2017 to 2023, the CPS refused to take our reepeated requests for information serially and provided contradictory statements on exactly when the emails were destined.

The Leavers Process Document

It was only in 2023, after judge o'Connor ordered it to shed light on the destruction of documents, that the crown prosecution service provided a copy of the “Leavers Processes Dots Dots”.

According to the CPS's version of the facts, The Leavers Process Document Justified the deletion of Close's email account and outlined the standard operating procedus – which the cps said wi Deleting the accounts of CPS Lawyers and Employees when they Retired.

But while the two Rulings – One by Judge O'Connor in June 2023, The Other by Judge Foss in January 2025 – Have Opened a Crack in the Wall of Secrecy Surroounding the Destructure of KEY DECUMENTS, TOON Mysteries remain.

If Close's account was deleted under Standard and Legal Procedure Outlined in an official document, why in six years of our fore foia life Litigation did no one ever mention that document to us?

And why did the cps refuse to provide information for years? And why did it take two rulings by two judges to search for such information?

Had the Uk Authorities with the Crown Prosecution Service Addressed Our Requests Seriously from the very persuasion, it is likely the cps's'r it service provider or the cps's extradition us Have Still Had Data about the destruction of documents.

“The Tribunal Decision [by Judge Foss] Vindicated MS Maurizi's Contension That The CPS Never Properly Dealt with Her Request and was likely to hold information about the deletion of paul close emails, “Estelle dehon kc, a priainement foia With cornerstone barrister's representing us in the foia litigation since 2017, Told Computer Weekly.

“Now the cps has disclosed some further limited information, but that rays further questions, so a review will be requested,” Dehon Added.

Why we need metadata

To determine wheether the leaveers process document is genuine, and wheether the email in which it was intertwined by the cps is genuine, it would be important to obtaain the associal But the CPS Authorities have refused to release it to us, and judge fossed in their favorite when it comes to metadata.

“Email metadata includes information about how and when emails have traveled over the internet, as well as which individuals and computers have been involved,” Steven Murdoch, Professor of SECURDOCHOCH Engineering at University College London and a Royal Society University Research Fellow, Told Computer Weekly.

“This information is added to an email as 'headers', which are not typical shown to users but are invaluable to investors Trying to Establish the Authenticity and Significance of the email,” Murdoch.

“For example, these headers can indicate where an email is genuine, how it might have been modified and by whom, as well as allore it is from who it Claims to Bee.

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