To add insult to injury, her two kids go to the school where this boy’s father is the janitor.
Harry Dunn crash: Suspect who claimed immunity named as diplomat’s wife Anne Sacoolas
She left for United States before police could lay charge of dangerous driving causing death of 19-year-old motorcyclist
The diplomat’s wife suspected of fatally hitting a British teen and returning to the United States without facing charges has been revealed as Anne Sacoolas.
The 42-year-old, whose identity was revealed by Sky News, is believed to have left the UK before she could be charged with causing the death of Harry Dunn.
The 19-year-old died after his motorbike collided with a car, driving on the wrong side of the road, as it left a US intelligence base, the RAF Croughton, in Northamptonshire, on 27 August.
The woman thought to be behind the wheel was identified in the media as the wife of a US diplomat, before her identity was revealed this week.
Ms Sacoolas is now thought to be back in the United States after she invoked a special deal that saw her able to claim immunity, when it became clear charges would be laid.
Typically diplomatic immunity covers only diplomats and their dependents based in London.
However, Sky News revealed the special arrangement saw immunity apply to those diplomats and their families based at the intelligence centre in Northamptonshire.
His family is now appealing for the woman to return to face investigation, after it was revealed she left the country when it became clear she would be facing criminal charges.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, said: “The police have the CCTV footage showing that she pulled out of the RAF base on to the wrong side of the road. Harry had no chance.
“She travelled on 350 to 400 yards on the wrong side of the road. It was a head-on collision – we later lost him in hospital.”
Ms Charles said the family did not know how to start grieving properly without justice being served.
“Everyone loved him, we’re utterly broken inside and out, everything hurts day and night, it’s an effort to do anything, I ache from it, every limb, every internal organ hurts.
A crowd-funding campaign, “Justice4Harry” has so far raised more than £5,000 to help the family.
Meanwhile, police chiefs have written to the US embassy in London to demand immunity is waived.
Nick Adderley, chief constable for Northamptonshire Police, said US authorities had been appealed to in “the strongest terms” to apply a waiver and “allow the justice process to take place”.
When asked whether the UK wants the US to hand over the diplomat’s wife, prime minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesman said: “The details of this case are extremely concerning and the foreign secretary has discussed it with the US ambassador.
"The justice process should be allowed to take place and we urge the US to reconsider their decision. The prime minister offers his condolences to the Dunn family. This was a tragic set of events which no family should have to experience.”
A US Embassy spokesman has said questions over any waiver of immunity in the case of the wife of a US diplomat who left the UK after becoming a suspect in a fatal road crash would be “considered carefully”.
The embassy spokesman said: “We express our deepest sympathies and offer condolences to the family of the deceased in this tragic traffic accident.
“Any questions regarding a waiver of the immunity with regard to our diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully ... immunity is rarely waived.
“The US Embassy has been and will continue to be in close contact with appropriate British officials.”
Additional reporting by PA
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...45686.html?amp
Anne Sacoolas: Parents of teen killed in crash don't want US diplomat's wife punished
Anne Sacoolas claimed immunity and returned to the US after Harry Dunn died in a collision in Northamptonshire.
By Alix Culbertson, News reporter @alixculbertson
Monday 7 October 2019 11:16, UK
The parents of a British teenager killed in a car crash which is thought to have involved an American diplomat's wife said they do not want her to be punished after she left the country.
Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn told Sky News they want Anne Sacoolas to come back to the UK to face them after their son, Harry Dunn, 19, died in hospital following a head-on collision with a car while riding his motorbike.
Police believe Mrs Sacoolas, 42, pulled out on to the wrong side of the road as she emerged from Northamptonshire's RAF Croughton on 27 August.
Sky News named the diplomat's wife on Sunday after earlier revealing a deal gives diplomats and their families at the US spy base diplomatic immunity, despite only London-based US diplomats and their dependents usually being covered.
Image:Harry Dunn. Pic: Facebook
Harry's parents have criticised Mrs Sacoolas for leaving the country and today told Sky News they do not "necessarily" want her to be punished.
Mrs Charles said: "Come home, come back to the UK. We're not a horrible family, we're a usual UK family that just need to put a face to what we have now is a name.
"Talk to her, find out how she's feeling. She's got to be suffering as well, she's a mum.
"Without knowing who this person is properly we can't begin to try and start our grieving process.
"We just don't understand from one human to another, one mum to another, how you could just get on a plane and leave behind the devastation she has without even speaking to us, without an apology of any kind?"
She appealed for Boris Johnson to use the UK's "special relationship" with the US to "its full potential" to get Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.
The parents said their MP, Andrea Leadsom, has told them she will fight for them to get justice, while Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has also been helpful.
"If it comes to it we will go to Washington," she said.
"But we don't want it to come to that. We don't see why it should come to that.
"We're not out to keep fighting, we just want to sit and talk with her."
Image:A letter sent to the family from the US ambassador following Harry's death
Mr Dunn said they were struggling to understand how Mrs Sacoolas was given diplomatic immunity and how she could leave the country.
He said: "She was compliant with the police, she admitted at the time she was in the wrong.
"We know from the police she was going to stay in the country, she was permitted to stay here for three years.
"And then we didn't think this would be what is happening, so to hear the news a few weeks after the funeral was devastating."
Mrs Charles said the family are "not coping" and just trying to get through each hour of every day after the death of the son they said kept the family together after she and Mr Dunn split up when Harry was young.
She said: "Harry always fought for what he thought was right. We're honouring him by doing this. We just have to keep going to try to get some closure.
"All we need to do is to meet her, all we need to do is ask her to come back. It's not much to ask. She's left a family in complete ruin. We're broken.
"Many of us, not just direct parents, siblings, grandparents, aunties, uncles, nieces - it's everything.
"We're all broken and we're just utterly shocked and appalled that somebody is allowed to get on a plane and go home and avoid our justice system."
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/anne-...ished-11829884
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