Assange Lawyer Hid Rushdie, Defended Lawmaker Who Faked Death
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Geoffrey Robertson, the U.K. lawyer seeking to halt WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden, has grown accustomed to high-profile cases since representing a politician who faked his own death in the 1970s.
The human-rights lawyer, who like Assange was born in Australia, said the interest in his client’s case reminds him of the late U.K. Postmaster General and Labour member of Parliament John Stonehouse, who staged his suicide on a Miami beach in 1974, leaving his wife to collect the insurance.