Harry’s ‘killer’ did NOT have diplomatic immunity, parents told

The Director of Public Prosecutions has told harry Dunn’s parents he believes the US motorist accused of killing him did not have diplomatic immunity when she left Britain.

Radd Seiger, the spokesman for harry’s parents, said Max hill QC also told them at a meeting in London that he was ‘actively considering’ holding a virtual trial for Anne Sacoolas. Mr hill’s position contradicts the stance taken by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who told the Commons last October that Mrs Sacoolas did have diplomatic immunity.

Mr hill met harry’s parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles, hours after they filed a civil claim for damages against his alleged killer in the US. Mrs Sacoolas, 43, has admitted colliding with a motorbike being ridden by 19-year-old harry, pictured, while she was on the wrong side of the road in her Volvo SUV outside the US air base in Northamptonshire where her intelligence officer husband Jonathan was based.

The American couple flew home to Virginia with their three children weeks after the August 2019 collision, with Mrs Sacoolas claiming diplomatic immunity.

But Mr Seiger said Mr hill told the family that it was his view that Mrs Sacoolas did not have any such immunity.

The Crown Prosecution Service announced last December that Mrs Sacoolas was to be charged with causing harry’s death by dangerous driving.

In response, Mrs Sacoolas’s US lawyer, Amy Jeffress, said her client would not ‘return voluntarily’ to the UK over what was described as a ‘terrible but unintentional accident’.

The following month, an extradition request submitted by the home Office was rejected by the US State Department.

Mr Seiger said the DPP’s legal team had also concluded that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) should not have allowed the suspect to leave the country.

‘The DPP made it clear to the parents that his legal team had concluded that Anne Sacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity,’ he added. ‘That is precisely why they charged her in December with causing death by dangerous driving.’