CCTV captures moment crash teenager killed in ‘big fireball’

CCTV footage from an RAF base captured the moment 19-yearold motorcyclist Harry Dunn was killed in a “big fireball” following a road crash.

The suspect, Anne Sacoolas (42), who is reported to be married to a US intelligence official, was granted diplomatic immunity after the collision, though that protection is now in dispute.

Mr Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, and the teenager’s father, Tim Dunn, told a press conference in New York that they felt let down by the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas — the motorist who allegedly collided with the teenager — to flee the country and return to America shortly after the crash outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on August 27.

The teenager’s parents called on Ms Sacoolas to return to the UK to face justice, saying: “It’s the right thing to do.” The family said CCTV evidence of the moments leading up to the crash made it “a clear-cut case”.

Speaking at yesterday’s press conference, a tearful Mrs Charles said: “We just want to know that she is being brought back to the UK. You know, that would be a huge step in the right direction. It’s the only right thing to do. It’s the only humane thing to do.”

She added: “All of our grief has gone on hold, it’s coming out in other horrific ways, your legs feel like lead, you’re in pain morning until night that no painkillers can take away.

“You’re not able to cry because we can’t understand this whole situation as to why she (Anne Sacoolas) would have left us without wanting to meet us back then. She needs to get on the plane and get back to the UK, just do the right thing.

“It shouldn’t be that difficult, it shouldn’t have been this difficult, she surely didn’t have to go.”

Mrs Charles said the family has been told there is CCTV evidence allegedly showing Ms Sacoolas leaving the RAF base “on the wrong side of the road”.

She alleged: “CCTV follows her all the way down the road on the wrong side of the road and you see Harry’s headlight of his motorbike and then there is a big fireball when his bike went up.

“So it should have been a clear-cut case. It should have been simple and I promised Harry and we promised Harry as a family when we’d lost him that night, when we were talking to him in the hospital when we’d lost him already, that we would make sure justice was done.”

The teenager’s father also called on US President Donald Trump to act in an effort to secure justice for his son.