WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 'like Mick Jagger', former colleague claims

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing extradition to Sweden. Source: AP

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange attracts groupies like Rolling Stones frontman and lothario Mick Jagger, a former colleague has claimed.

The description of Assange's attraction to women came as Britain's Mail on Sunday claims the two women who say they were sexually assaulted by the WikiLeaks editor would never have complained to police had he agreed to an HIV test.
WikiLeaks' Swedish co-ordinator said he begged his boss to have the test, both to head off the possible police investigation and for Assange's own peace of mind.
"The two women told me that if he goes to the clinic for an HIV test, then we won't go to the police," said the colleague, insisting on anonymity as he is a prosecution witness. "I told him, 'Just do it, and anyway, it's good for you, because you're sleeping around'.

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"A lot of women were extremely attracted to Julian, and after a few minutes they offered themselves to him.
"From my perspective, they were like groupies with Mick Jagger, and he takes these opportunities."
The co-ordinator said he felt certain the women who both allege Assange forced them to have intercourse in August without using a condom, against their express wishes, had nothing to do with any supposed US plot to discredit him, as Assange has claimed.
He said Assange refused to take the test because he didn't like being blackmailed.
Assange's British lawyer, Mark Stephens, said his client later took a test for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, which showed he was not infected.