Harry Dunn: Anne Sacoolas extradition request rejected by US

The US has turned down an extradition request for a girl who’s to be charged with inflicting the demise of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn.

Mr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect Anne Sacoolas, the spouse of a US intelligence officer, leaving for the US below diplomatic immunity.

Household spokesman Radd Seiger stated that they had taken the information “in our stride”.

The Residence Workplace stated the choice appeared “to be a denial of justice”.

Extradition proceedings have been launched earlier this month.

Talking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Seiger stated the newest transfer had been “factored it into our planning and technique”.

“The fact is that this administration, which we are saying is behaving lawlessly and taking a wrecking ball to one of many best alliances on the earth, they will not be round endlessly whereas that extradition request can be,” he added.

“We’ll merely plot and plan for an inexpensive administration to return in in the future and to reverse this determination.”

‘Extremely inappropriate’

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned down the extradition request in an e-mail to the UK Authorities on Thursday night.

Washington stated granting the request would “render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a sensible nullity”.

The household’s constituency MP Andrea Leadsom is because of meet the US ambassador Woody Johnson in London later to debate the case.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson beforehand stated the possibility of Ms Sacoolas, who’s to be charged with inflicting the demise by harmful driving, ever returning to the UK was very low.

Mr Seiger stated “no purpose” was given by Mr Pompeo in rejecting the extradition request.

“It is one of many darkest days within the historical past of this particular relationship,” he stated.

“Boris Johnson needed to be prime minister, he’s now being examined severely.

“I count on him immediately to rise to that problem and are available and meet with me and the household and inform us what he’ll do about it.”

Mr Dunn died after his bike was in collision with a automotive owned by Mrs Sacoolas.

The crash occurred exterior RAF Croughton the place Mrs Sacoolas’ husband Jonathan labored as an intelligence officer.

The 42-year-old left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.

In a press release launched on behalf of the suspect after she was charged in December, Mrs Sacoolas’s legal professionals stated: “Anne won’t return voluntarily to the UK to face a possible jail sentence for what was a horrible however unintentional accident.”

The Residence Workplace stated it was “upset on this determination which seems to be a denial of justice”.

“We’re urgently contemplating our choices,” a spokeswoman added.

A press release from the US State Division stated: “On the time the accident occurred, and in the course of her keep within the UK, the US citizen driver on this case had immunity from legal jurisdiction.

“If america have been to grant the UK’s extradition request, it could render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a sensible nullity and would set an awfully troubling precedent.”