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| UK family loses court battle in US diplomatic immunity case |
| 2020-11-24 |
| LONDON (AP) — The parents of a British teen who was killed in a car crash lost a court battle with the U.K. government Tuesday over whether their son’s alleged killer, an American woman, had diplomatic immunity. The family has been seeking justice for 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who died after his motorbike crashed into a car driven on the wrong side of the road outside a U.S. airbase in central England last August. The car’s driver, Anne Sacoolas, left for the U.S. several weeks after the collision. Officials said she was entitled to diplomatic immunity because her husband worked at the airbase. Sacoolas, 43, was charged in December with causing death by dangerous driving, but the U.S. State Department rejected a request to extradite her to Britain to face trial. Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, launched the court case to argue that Britain’s Foreign Office wrongly decided Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity. But two judges rejected that Tuesday, ruling that the American "enjoyed immunity from U.K. criminal jurisdiction at the time of Harry’s death." The teen’s mother said she was determined to continue finding justice for her son. She was backed by British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who said he stands with the family. "We’re clear that Anne Sacoolas needs to face justice in the U.K, and we will support the family with their legal claim in the U.S.," Raab said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 @ #6 - No statement, no waiver, no poly. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-11-24 12:49 |
| #9 It's not a crime for an elite to run over a commoner. It wasn't in aristocratic France and it isn't today in America. Anne Sacoolas did nothing wrong. |
| Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993 2020-11-24 09:45 |
| #8 If the First District court in DC can be used to prosecute foreigners for crimes against Americans in foreign countries (a real contortion of the Constitution*), then by extension could not the same apply to Americans who commit crimes in foreign countries? * Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, .. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-11-24 09:03 |
| #7 /\ Excellent guidance. I'm reasonably certain Sacoolas never had any intention of actually signing a waiver. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-11-24 08:46 |
| #6 Never sign a 'waiver of diplomatic immunity' |
| Posted by: Maggie Uleregum1042 2020-11-24 08:42 |
| #5 /\Excellent point Airandee! Pick it up where she pitches a G&T into the face of her lover and runs out of the pub. A man named Steele sitting next to them in the snug, desperately attempted to calm the two women, but failed miserably. Finishing his pint, he retorts to those nearby, "I have my own bloody problems." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-11-24 08:38 |
| #4 Why do you assume he was the one employed (beyond what the MSM publishes). Maybe it was her who was the employee of the USA! |
| Posted by: Airandee 2020-11-24 08:25 |
| #3 Driving down to Tyson's for the Black Friday sale? Please drive carefully sweetheart. These unplanned PNG's are destroying the family budget. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-11-24 08:16 |
| #2 /\ I can't imagine whom he might have been working for. Yeah, no kidding! |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-11-24 07:53 |
| #1 Base "technical assistant" was he? Packed up entire family and left the UK on a private jet? Car waited for them at Dulles? I can't imagine whom he might have been working for. MAIL - It was believed that diplomatic immunity only applied to US officials - and their families - if they worked at the US Embassy in London. But it appears that because of the work done at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire – a US intelligence hub in Britain - the same applies there. Sky News claims an immunity deal between the UK and US there started in 1994. As a result Northamptonshire Police were planning to get Anne Sacoolas to sign a 'waiver of diplomatic immunity' - but she, her husband and their children fled on a private jet. Harry's family claim that Mrs Sacoolas had promised to work with police and admitted culpability. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-11-24 07:50 |