Dunn family remove police from case over son’s road death

HARRY DUNN’S parents have dropped their legal claim against Northamptonshire Police after concluding the force was “absolved of any blame” following their son’s death.

The 19-year-old’s family are set for a two-day judicial review hearing at the High Court in November where they will allege that the Foreign Secretary “obstructed justice” by allowing Anne Sacoolas, the American suspect in Harry’s hit-and-run death, to leave the UK.

Northamptonshire Police were brought into the legal claim in January as Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, Harry’s parents, sought to understand how Ms Sacoolas was able to claim diplomatic immunity following the fatal crash in August last year.

Radd Seiger, spokesman for the family, said: “Having carefully reviewed the documents disclosed by the Foreign Secretary, the parents are now satisfied that the police are absolved of any blame and could have done no more to ensure that Ms Sacoolas was brought to justice.

“Our case remains that the police investigation was effectively stopped in its tracks abruptly when the Foreign Office told the police shortly after Harry died that Ms Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity. We say the documents reveal the Foreign Office kept police in the dark for 14 days about the uncertainty surrounding Ms Sacoolas’s claim to immunity.

“They failed to tell them that Ms Sacoolas was planning to leave the country, and did not tell police that she had gone until the day after she left.”

It is understood that the force will now only be involved in the claim as an “interested party”. The Foreign Office has been approached for comment.