Harry Dunn death: Johnson and Biden discuss virtual trial for US diplomat's wife [View all]
Source: Guardian
Idea being pursued by Dominic Raab might allow Anne Sacoolas to face punishment in US
Harry Dunn was killed when a car crashed into his motorbike in August 2019. Photograph: Family Handout/PA
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Sat 12 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT
Britain is pressing for the wife of a US diplomat to go on virtual trial over the death of Harry Dunn, who was killed when a car crashed into his motorbike outside a US military base in Northamptonshire two years ago.
The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, is pursuing the idea of a virtual trial, which would possibly allow Anne Sacoolas to face some form of punishment in the US rather than being extradited back to the UK. The solution was proposed at a meeting on Thursday between the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the US president, Joe Biden.
Radd Seiger, the lawyer for Dunn’s family, greeted the proposal as a huge development
Raab referred to either a virtual trial or process, so it is not clear that the outcome would lead to Sacoolas facing a possible jail sentence in either the UK or the US, something she has resisted. She has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, but the US embassy pleaded diplomatic immunity and took her and her family out of the UK days after the crash without informing Northamptonshire police.
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