Tragic Harry’s mum hopes Biden takes pity on her plight
Harry Dunn’s mum has told how Joe Biden’s election win has given her new hope in her fight for justice against the US diplomat accused of killing her son.
Charlotte Charles admitted her spirits went “off the edge of a cliff” on Wednesday after exit polls wrongly suggested Donald Trump was on the verge of staying in power.
But she is now hopeful the new president elect, who suffered tragedy when his own first wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi were killed in a traffic crash, will order former CIA operative Anne Sacoolas to face a UK court.
The Democrat’s two sons Hunter and Beau, who died from a brain tumour in 2015, also suffered serious injuries in the horror crash, in which their car was hit by a truck in December 1972 as Neilia and the children drove to buy a Christmas tree shortly after her husband became US senator-elect.
Charlotte, who is preparing herself for a longawaited judicial review at the High Court next week, said: “Seeing Joe Biden voted in as president has given me new hope.
“He understands what it’s like to hear words no parent should ever hear.
“He gets it and I just hope he isn’t scared to overturn any decisions that President Trump has made that he doesn’t agree with.”
Charlotte added: “We are already in contact with senior people in the democratic party in Washington, who have been incredibly supportive.
“And we have a contact with Team Biden and they seem very approachable. I hope I’ll get to meet him as soon as it’s safe to travel.
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Harry, 19, died when his motorbike crashed with a car driven by Sacoolas near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August last year.
Sacoolas returned to the US, claiming diplomatic immunity.
The American was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was refused in January.
The US State
Department has since said the decision to reject the request is “final”.
The Crown Prosecution Service this week called for Sacoolas to return to the UK to face trial.
In her quest for justice, Charlotte met Donald Trump in the Oval Office in October last year.
She said: “Trump was hellbent on getting us to agree to seeing her. He kept pushing it and pushing it and wouldn’t let it go.
“I took his hand really tight when we all lined up to leave and held it in mine and I said to him, ‘Please, you have a son, please just try to put yourself in my shoes and please have a rethink and send her back’.
“He looked into my eyes and said he would do his best to look at it from a different angle and that gave me just that little bit of hope. I feel animosity towards him about that now because it gave me false hope.”
wages for the poorest workers increased 4.7 per cent year on year.
But then Covid-19 struck and things became too much to bear.
A turning point was surely when the president suggested drinking bleach as a cure for coronavirus
– a disease he had initially branded a “hoax”. Lies about the media and political opponents could be overlooked – lying about a virus killing thousands was another matter.
Trump’s time in the White House is over. America’s problems will not disappear with him – he leaves behind a deeply divided country.
Joe Biden is of Irish descent and will take a keen interest in Brexit negotiations and the ramifications for the Good Friday Agreement.