Boris Johnson said Anne Sacoolas’ claim of diplomatic immunity is unjustified and he will personally take action if she doesn't return.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will make a personal plea to the White House should a U.S. diplomat’s wife fail to return to the U.K. to face questioning in a wrong-way collision that killed a British teenager.
Sacoolas, 42, reportedly fled back to the U.S. following the Aug. 27 traffic collision in the village of Croughton. “We don’t know how we can start to grieve for him,” she added of her family’s plea for closure. “We have nothing. No justice. We have nothing to put our minds at rest that she’s even remorseful.”
To authorities’ apparent surprise, Sacoolas later left for the U.S. and has since claimed diplomatic immunity under the 1961 Vienna Convention, which protects diplomats and their family members from prosecution. Immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them.
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