Spy faces web trial over Harry Dunn crash
THE former CIA spy who fled Britain after the death of teenager Harry Dunn could face a virtual trial, the Foreign Secretary said yesterday.
Dominic Raab said although the US still refused to extradite Anne Sacoolas, a ‘virtual trial or process’ was now possible.
It comes after Boris Johnson said US President Joe Biden was ‘actively engaged’ with the case and ‘extremely sympathetic’.
On August 27, 2019, Sacoolas was on the wrong side of the road when she crashed into Mr Dunn’s motorbike near RAF Croughton, where she was based. Mr Dunn, 19, died in hospital the same day. Nine days later Sacoolas fled using diplomatic immunity. She was charged with causing death by dangerous driving but the US has rejected calls for a UK prosecution.
Yesterday, Mr Raab told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The path is clear for legal authorities in the UK to approach Anne Sacoolas’s lawyers – without any problem from the US government – to see whether some kind of virtual trial or process could allow accountability and solace and justice.’
Mr Johnson raised the issue with Mr Biden at the G7 summit. The US President lost his first wife and daughter in a car crash in 1972. Mr Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, said: ‘We hope President Biden takes a different view to the previous administration… having suffered loss in similar circumstances.’