Crash parents: Foreign Office kept it secret that diplomat’s wife fled to US

THE family of the teenager killed in a crash with a diplomat’s wife spoke of their anger last night after learning the Foreign Office asked police to delay revealing she had fled to the US.

Harry Dunn’s parents said British officials kept them ‘in the dark’ when the woman claimed diplomatic immunity.

Police are said to have waited ten days to tell them Anne Sacoolas had left the country on September 16 – three weeks after the crash outside a US intelligence base in Northamptonshire.

Harry’s mother Charlotte Charles wants to know why there was a delay, and said the claim the Foreign Office played a role has heaped more pain on the family. She said: ‘It’s disgusting. They’ve got to answer some questions we throw at them haven’t they? Who made that ridiculous decision?’

Mrs Charles called on Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to answer the family’s concerns. ‘He needs to do the right thing as well doesn’t he and own up to why they made that decision,’ she told ITV. ‘Why keep us in the dark? Why add more pain?’

Harry’s family are flying back today from the US, where they met President Donald Trump as part of their campaign for justice. Once here they will confront Nick Adderley, the chief constable of Northamptonshire Police, who is in charge of the investigation into Harry’s death.

They want to know how Mrs Sacoolas was allowed to leave the country and are pressing for assurances the force will ‘leave no stone unturned’ in trying to get her back to face justice. Harry was killed on August 27 when Mrs Sacoolas drove on the wrong side of the road outside RAF Croughton and collided with his motorbike. She claimed immunity because her husband was a US intelligence officer there.

Mrs Charles and Harry’s father Tim Dunn met Mr Trump in the White House but refused his attempts to try to ‘railroad’ them into meeting Mrs Sacoolas – who had been sneaked into an adjoining room – saying they are only willing to meet her on British soil.