Foreign Office failings over justice for Harry Dunn ‘unforgiveable’

DOMINIC RAAB and the Foreign Office have been accused by the Shadow Foreign Secretary of “unforgivable failings” over their response to the death of Harry Dunn.

Harry’s parents Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they felt “uplifted” after a virtual meeting with Lisa Nandy and hoped she would “take things forward on our and the nation’s behalf ”.

And the Shadow Foreign Secretary responded swiftly, writing in The Mail on Sunday that the meeting with Harry’s family “was a moment I will never forget”.

Ms Nandy said the parents’ campaign “has already highlighted a string of unforgivable failings by a Government they rightly believed should have been there to support them”.

She added that she was “deeply troubled by leaked communications reported by the Mail on Sunday in recent weeks that cast serious doubt on the accuracy of the Government’s own timeline of events”.

She added: “The Foreign Secretary’s account of how the person later charged with causing Harry’s death was able to leave the country, even while the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were pursuing prosecution, just does not add up.”

Responding to the criticism, the Foreign Office said: “We consistently called for Anne Sacoolas’s immunity to be waived before she left the UK.

“Both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have been clear with the US that the refusal to extradite her amounts to a denial of justice and that she should return to the UK.”

Harry, 19, was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car outside a US military base in Northamptonshire on August 27 last year. His alleged killer, 42-yearold Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash outside RAF Croughton and was able to return to her home country.