Assange fails to block controversial memoirs

JULIAN ASSANGE has complained he will have to buy a copy of his own newly-published autobiography to find out its contents after he failed to block its release.

The WikiLeaks founder tried to cancel his contract for the memoir after reading a first draft, but publishers Canongate Books went ahead with its publication yesterday against his wishes.

In the book, Assange, 40, suggests that rape allegations against him could have been concocted by the US government and says he knew that “forces” would eventually trap him.