Killed PC’s mother urges UK return of Harry’s alleged killer
THE MOTHER of Pc Andrew Harper has written a letter to Harry Dunn’s alleged killer urging her to return to the UK.
Debbie Adlam, who has become friends with Mr Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles, said she wrote the letter because “there is too much suffering going on to sit and do nothing”.
Mr Dunn was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car outside a US military base in Northamptonshire on August 27 last year.
Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an intelligence officer based at RAF Croughton, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash and was able to return to the US, sparking an international controversy.
Mrs Adlam’s son was killed 12 days earlier after he tried to stop three thieves fleeing as they stole a quad bike in Stanford Dingley, Berkshire.
She wrote to Sacoolas the day after the anniversary of her own son’s death, asking her to consider how both families had experienced their “world falling apart”.
In the letter to Sacoolas, who was charged in December with causing Mr Dunn’s death by dangerous driving, Mrs Adlam described the two families’ losses as “immeasurable”.
The letter, seen by the PA news agency, reads: “On August 15 last year my son Andrew was dragged for over a mile by thieves stealing a quad bike. I will not go into details of Andrew’s injuries, suffice to say they were horrific as were Harry’s.
“As a mother yourself, can you begin to imagine if what happened to Andrew and Harry had happened to one of your children?
“Charlotte and I have to live through having to face this reality every day and night.”
Mrs Adlam wrote that the devastation to both families had been “overwhelming”.