Status is ‘no longer pertinent’ says foreign secretary in letter sent to parents of Harry DunnThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has reportedly said US woman Anne Sacoolas does not have diplomatic immunity over the road crash that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn. The woman believed to be driving the car, 42-year-old Sacoolas – who is reportedly married to a US intelligence official – left the UK following the crash citing diplomatic immunity. Now the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has written to Dunn’s family about Sacoolas and, according to the BBC and Sky News, has said: “The US have now informed us that they too consider that immunity is no longer pertinent. On Friday, Boris Johnson said America was “absolutely ruthless” in its safeguarding of the diplomatic immunity of people like Sacoolas. A fatal crash and the problem of diplomatic immunity – podcast Read moreThe prime minister said that although Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Dunn’s family’s views on the use of diplomatic immunity, the US was “very reluctant” to allow citizens to be tried abroad.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2019 03:29 UTC