Suspect wants interview with British police

The US suspect who fled the UK after teenager Harry Dunn was killed in a crash outside an RAF base has asked to be interviewed by British police under caution.

Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road when she hit Mr Dunn’s motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on August 27.

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said she “smelt a rat” over the way the case was handled, and said she would be “digging” on behalf of the family after they visited her yesterday.

The spokesman for Mr Dunn’s family, Radd Seiger, said they were in tears as it finally felt like somebody was listening to them following the meeting.

After the crash, Mrs Sacoolas fled to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity, which has since been disputed by the lawyers representing the 19-year-old’s family.

Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, have made repeated pleas for Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK to “face justice”, while Mr Seiger has accused the authorities of “further compounding the family’s misery” through “contradictory” actions.

At a press conference yesterday Northamptonshire Police’s Chief Constable, Nick Adderley, said the police’s work during the investigation into Mr Dunn’s death was “amongst the best I have ever seen”.

He said: “I will say, as the Chief Constable, having worked in four forces previous to this, I can say that the quality and the standard of investigation in this particular case is exemplary – is amongst the best that I have ever seen.”