Scottish Daily Mail

Harry mother ‘livid’ at claims death crash driver was CIA spy

- By Inderdeep Bains

THE mother of Harry Dunn is ‘livid’ after it was claimed the American woman wanted over his death was a CIA agent.

Charlotte Charles has demanded answers over claims that Anne Sacoolas, who fled Britain after crashing into the teenager’s motorbike outside an air base, served as a senior spy.

The US government has refused to extradite her, claiming Mrs Sacoolas – the wife of an intelligen­ce officer based at RAF Croughton in Northampto­nshire – has diplomatic immunity.

British officials are said to have been aware of Mrs Sacoolas’s career in espionage but she was not declared as an agent when she came to the UK with her husband Jonathan.

The mother of three also did not have any official role.

Devastated Mrs Charles said: ‘How could they do this to us? We have thrown ourselves into building relationsh­ips with the Government despite the terrible way they were treating us.

‘We believe in giving people a second chance. But I am livid today and my family are full of anger.’

Mrs Charles said the fresh reports in The Mail on Sunday ‘shows that they have not been candid with us at all’. She said it takes her back to ‘those terrible days when they were trying to kick this all under the carpet’.

The Dunn family spokesman, Radd Seiger, has called for a public inquiry into the matter, saying Foreign Secretary

Dominic Raab did not mention the suspect’s reported past as a CIA officer.

Harry, 19, was killed on August 27 last year. Mrs Sacoolas, 42, claimed diplomatic immunity as the wife of an intelligen­ce official and was able to return to her home country, sparking an internatio­nal outcry.

She was charged with causing Harry’s death by dangerous driving in December but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected an extraditio­n request.

Multiple sources in Washington and London have reportedly confirmed Mrs Sacoolas’s CIA background, with one even claiming she was ‘more senior than her husband’.

US government sources told the newspaper that Mrs Sacoolas was ‘not active’ in the UK, although a security source added: ‘You never really leave the CIA.’

‘How could they do this to us?’

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