Harry Dunn family tell police chief to resign over Twitter post

THE family of Harry Dunn, the motorcyclist who died in a collision with a car allegedly driven by the wife of a US intelligence officer, have called for the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police to resign after “outrageous” comments he made about the case.

Responding to news that the family had instructed lawyers to sue the Trump administration, Nick Adderley wrote on Twitter: “How sad but how predictable.” He later deleted the post.

Harry, 17, died in August near RAF Croughton, Northants, in a collision with a car allegedly being driven on the wrong side of the road by Ann Sacoolas, who claimed diplomatic immunity and returned to America.

Radd Seiger, a spokesman for Harry’s

parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles, said they had lost all confidence in the police due to the post. He accused Mr Adderley of “a staggering degree of unprofessionalism”.

Mr Adderley said he meant it was “sad” that the family felt their only recourse was to sue in the US civil courts. He apologised if it was “misconstrued”.

After interviewing Mrs Sacoolas in the US, police passed their evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Yesterday, Donald Trump said he tried to get Ms Sacoolas and Mr Dunn’s family to meet so they could “grieve together”. Speaking in an LBC radio interview with Nigel Farage, the Brexit Party leader, the US president said: “I wanted ... to introduce them to each other so they could really grieve together – the parents didn’t want to meet her.”