It's always a good thing to bring cases like this into some kind of context to see the extent to which it's the rule of law or something else. Julian Assange may be a rapist but a prosecutor thought there wasn't enough to even say maybe don't leave the country. Roman Polanski may not be a child rapist but I'm not even sure he arguing that. [1]

How would you characterise the difference in the treatment of these gentlemen and I use the word gentlemen quite wrongly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski