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Eugene

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Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:18 AM Oct 2019

Diplomatic immunity no longer applies to Anne Sacoolas, says Foreign Office

Source: The Guardian

Diplomatic immunity no longer applies to Anne Sacoolas, says Foreign Office

Status is ‘no longer pertinent’, says foreign secretary in letter sent to parents of Harry Dunn

Amy Walker
Sun 13 Oct 2019 10.34 BST
First published on Sun 13 Oct 2019 04.29 BST

Diplomatic immunity no longer applies to the American intelligence official’s wife involved in the road crash that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn, the Foreign Office has said.

Anne Sacoolas, 42, left the UK shortly after the collision between Dunn’s motorbike and a car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August.

She is believed to have been driving the car but while she met with Northamptonshire police no investigation followed after the force was advised by the UK government that she had the protective status granted to foreign diplomats.

But after days of controversy surrounding the case, a letter from Dominic Raab to Dunn’s family seen by the BBC has suggested that her return to the US has rendered that status irrelevant.

“The US have now informed us that they too consider that immunity is no longer pertinent,” the foreign secretary’s letter says.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/13/harry-dunn-anne-sacoolas-driver-who-fled-uk-devastated-by-fatal-crash
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Diplomatic immunity no longer applies to Anne Sacoolas, says Foreign Office (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2019 OP
Good...nt 2naSalit Oct 2019 #1
+1 Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 #2
Hope the Dunn family is successful in suing her here in the US. sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #3
This was so wrong, she should never have had immunity RainCaster Oct 2019 #4

RainCaster

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4. This was so wrong, she should never have had immunity
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:06 AM
Oct 2019

Letting diplomatic immunity extend to employees at this spying outpost was done several years ago.

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