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LONDON: Forensic experts have failed to find crucial DNA evidence in the sexual assault case against Julian Assange, a British newspaper has reported. <\/p>\n
In a 100-page document shown to lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder, Swedish police made a case for the 41-year-old's extradition to Stockholm for questioning. <\/p>\n
The report said staff at two forensic laboratories were unable to find conclusive evidence of Mr Assange's DNA on a torn condom provided by one of two women who claim to have been assaulted in August 2010. <\/p>\n
However, the same analysts have found DNA believed to belong to Mr Assange on a condom from a second woman, The Mail on Sunday reports. <\/p>\n
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Mr Assange denies any wrongdoing and says sex with the two women was consensual. <\/p>\n
He remains in London's Ecuadorean embassy in a bid to avoid Swedish extradition, which he insists would lead to him being handed to authorities in the US, where the actions of his website are under investigation. <\/p>\n
The Swedish police report said one woman, now age 33, claims she was repeatedly molested by Mr Assange at her flat in Stockholm. She said he deliberately broke a condom before wearing it to have unprotected sex with her against her will. <\/p>\n
Scientists were unable to find Mr Assange's DNA on the condom and his lawyers suggest that is because a fake one may have been submitted, the newspaper said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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