By Livi Winchester, Feb. 5, 2015, Express.co.uk

It is now believed the cost of policing the Embassy has now soared past £10million, it emerged today.

Metropolitan Police officers have been standing outside the building in Knightsbridge, west London, since Mr Assange took shelter there in June 2012.

Police are forced to patrol the outside of the Embassy in case he steps foot on British soil, in which case he would be arrested.

Scotland Yard spent £9million on policing the building to the end of October, according to figures released in a Freedom of Information request from LBC Radio.

Mr Assange has been holed up in the Embassy for a further 96 days since these figures were released - meaning that the actual total amount spent by the force today has passed the £10million mark, or roughly £10,500 a day.