Send spy’s wife back to face justice, say parents of fireball crash victim
CCTV FOOTAGE from an RAF base captured the moment 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn was killed in a “big fireball” after a road crash.
The suspect, 42-year-old Anne Sacoolas, who is reported to be married to a US intelligence official, was granted diplomatic immunity after the collision, though that protection is now in dispute.
Mr Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, and the teenager’s father, Tim Dunn, told a press con- ference in New York they felt let down by the decision to allow Ms Sacoolas – the motorist who allegedly collided with the teenager – to flee the country and return to America shortly after the crash outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on August 27.
The teenager’s parents called on Ms Sacoolas to return to the UK to face justice, saying: “It’s the right thing to do.”
The family said CCTV evidence of the moments leading up to the crash made it “a clear-cut case”.
When asked if the footage
had been sourced from the RAF base, a Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said: “Yes, I believe so.”
Speaking at the press conference yesterday, a tearful Mrs Charles told reporters: “We just want to know that she is being brought back to the UK.
“You know, that would be a huge step in the right direction. It’s the only right thing to do. It’s
the only humane thing to do.”
She added: “All our grief has gone on hold. It’s coming out in other horrific ways. Your legs feel like lead, you’re in pain morning until night that no painkillers can take away.
“You’re not able to cry, because we can’t understand this whole situation as to why she [Anne Sacoolas] would have left us without wanting to meet us back then.
“She needs to get on the plane and get back to the UK – just do the right thing.”
Mrs Charles said the family had been told there was CCTV evidence showing Ms Sacoolas leaving the RAF base “on the wrong side of the road”.
She added: “CCTV follows her all the way down the road on the wrong side of the road and you see Harry’s headlight of his motorbike and then there is a big fireball when his bike went up.
“So it should have been a clearcut case. It should have been simple and I promised Harry and we promised Harry as a family when we’d lost him that night, when we were talking to him in the hospital when we’d lost him already, that we would make sure justice was done.”
The teenager’s father called on US President Donald Trump to act in an effort to secure justice for his son.
Mr Dunn said: “There’s just no way I can start grieving yet. As a family we can’t start. We need this resolved.
“Somewhere, somebody has made a decision to give this lady immunity.
“On that night there was an accident, a lady made a mistake, she killed our son.
“She didn’t mean to kill him, she didn’t mean to have an accident but you cannot walk away from that and just leave and expect nothing to happen.
“Our boy died and he deserves to have some justice.”