Hubby of Harry ‘killer’ was at crash scene
Pal reveals smash aftermath in letter
A FRIEND of Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas says the spy’s husband was also at the crash scene.
In jumping to the American mum’s defence, the pal revealed information about the accident that claimed the life of 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry.
It raises questions about what actions Sacoolas, 43, and husband Jonathan, 45, took after the crash near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019.
And it may form a crucial part of what lawyers for Harry’s parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, who have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the couple in the US, would ask them about.
Sacoolas’s friend Gail Hunter, 69, from South Carolina, said she could “no longer remain silent”. The pal also condemned the emergency services for “delays” after the accident. In a letter to her local paper, she wrote: “Anne was involved in an automobile accident while exiting the… base… with her two young children.
“She had been living in the country for about a month and pulled out on to the wrong side of the road. The claim that Anne left the scene is patently false.
“She did everything she could to help Harry Dunn, stopping a motorist to call for help and calling the Air Force base herself.”
She added: “Anne was at the scene of the accident, as was her husband, when the ambulance arrived 42 minutes later – an appalling delay in medical care compounded by another hour delay before he was admitted to the hospital where he later died – and remained at the scene until officials told her to leave.”
This is the first time anyone has said Jonathan Sacoolas, a US spy, was there too. It is not thought he witnessed the crash but was called to the scene by his wife. Because of her husband’s role, Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity.
She and her family fled back to the US on a private jet weeks after the crash.
After Sacoolas fled Britain, she was charged here with causing death by dangerous driving. But an extradition request from the Home Office was rejected by the US in January last year.