The U.K. will no longer offer immunity to the family of U.S. staff at a military base where a diplomat's wife fled the country after allegedly killing a teenager with her car.
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk up the stairs in the Foreign Office in London on Tuesday.U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk up the stairs in the Foreign Office in London on Tuesday.The U.S. and the U.K. have revised their diplomatic immunity rules, almost a year after the wife of a U.S. diplomat fled the country after allegedly killing a young man with her car.
Harry Dunn, 19, was struck by a car and killed last August while riding a motorbike in Northamptonshire, in central England.that Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, hit the man while driving on the wrong side of the road after she left a nearby air force base. Sacoolas returned to the U.S. shortly after the incident, despite telling police she had no plans to leave the U.K.
"We have the deepest sympathy for Harry Dunn's family," the statement continued."No family should have to experience what they have gone through and I recognise that these changes will not bring Harry back. However, I hope that the knowledge that the Croughton arrangements have been revised and that a family in their position would now see justice done brings some small measure of comfort.
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