Harry Dunn’s family to have ‘urgent meeting’ at White House

Harry Dunn’s family will visit the White House later for an “urgent meeting”, the family’s spokesman has said.

Harry, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car outside an RAF base in Northamptonshire in August.

Anne Sacoolas, the woman involved in the crash, returned to America after being granted diplomatic immunity.

The teenager’s parents arrived in New York on Sunday hoping to meet Ms Sacoolas – but only if she also agrees to return to the UK.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Harry’s father Tim Dunn called on President Trump to help secure justice for his son.

He said: “On that night there was an accident, a lady made a mistake, she killed our son, she didn’t mean to kill him, she didn’t mean to have an accident, but you cannot walk away from that and just leave and expect nothing to happen.

“Our boy died and he deserves to have some justice. That’s all we want.

“I would say to him (President Trump) as a man, as a father, how could you let this happen, if you are a father and your child died surely you’d want that person to own up and take responsibility for their action?”

Harry’s mother, Charlotte Charles, said that all the family wanted was for Ms Sacoolas to return to the UK to face justice, saying it was “the right thing to do”.

The Foreign Office previously said Ms Sacoolas no longer has diplomatic immunity because she has returned home, meaning the case could be taken forward by Northamptonshire Police.

Ms Sacoolas, 42, the wife of an American diplomat, said in a statement from her lawyers that she is “devastated”, though her whereabouts are uncertain.

Earlier today, police said they had visited the scene where Harry was killed and said prosecutors would receive a file on the case “very soon”.

Police have said they were not given advance warning that Ms Sacoolas was leaving the country three weeks after the crash.

A source close to the diplomat’s wife said on Monday that Ms Sacoolas had stayed at the scene after the collision and spoke to Harry to tell him she would call for help.

Ms Sacoolas was also said to have waved down another car which pulled over, allowing her to return to comfort her young children in her own car.

Radd Seiger, a spokesman and adviser to Harry’s family, said: “The only proper way [for Ms Sacoolas] to conduct herself is to return to the UK to face the music and to pass any information that she has to the police so that they may further their enquiries into the circumstances of the collision.”

Harry’s family have called on the Foreign Office to release all documents relating to its advice to Northamptonshire Police regarding the diplomatic immunity Ms Sacoolas was granted.

Mr Seiger said: “What we don’t know is whether somebody cocked up or whether they were put under pressure by the Americans to concede.

“But we want to conduct an investigation into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that this lady had the benefit of diplomatic immunity.

“If we’re not satisfied, then we’ll go to a judicial review and ask a High Court judge to review it all.”

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