Julian Assange Helped Crack Victorian Kid Porn Ring... February 11, 2011 AS a young man nearly 20 years ago, Julian Assange used his prodigious computer skills to help the Victorian police catch online pedophiles. In previously unpublished material about Mr Assange's early life in Melbourne that was released yesterday, lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder detailed how the budding computer hacker assisted local investigators to build two child pornography cases. The revelations came ahead of the imminent release of an explosive insider's account of Mr Assange and his WikiLeaks empire, which will go on sale next week, despite threats of legal action and the author demanding the book be recalled because of translation errors. Mr Assange is described as a dictatorial lover of young women and an abuser of cats in Daniel Domscheit-Berg's Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website. Mr Assange last night continued his fight against extradition from Britain to Sweden on alleged sex offences. On the final day of the hearing, his barrister, Australian Geoffrey Robertson QC, attacked Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for what he claimed was a "devastatingly prejudicial attack" against his client. "The real evil of this outburst by the Prime Minister is not that he will have an effect on these proceedings, but in a small country it has created a toxic atmosphere," Mr Robertson said. Mr Assange "is public enemy number one as a result of the Prime Minister's statement". District judge Howard Riddle, who is hearing the extradition case alone, rejected Mr Robertson's attempt to have the case adjourned as a result of Mr Reinfeldt's comments. The London hearing came as Mr Assange's mother, Christine, last night hand-delivered a letter to Kevin Rudd's office in Brisbane, in which she pleaded with the Foreign Minister to condemn the treatment of her son by Swedish authorities. "As far as I am aware you have made no diplomatic prot...