"The wife of a US diplomat who fatally hit a British teenager and left the country is Anne Sacoolas, Sky News can reveal.
Mrs Sacoolas, 42, has claimed diplomatic immunity and left the UK for America after 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed in a head-on collision while riding his motorbike.
Police believe Mrs Sacoolas was on the wrong side of the road as she emerged from Northamptonshire's RAF Croughton on 27 August.
Sky News is naming her after earlier revealing a deal gives diplomats and their families at the US spy base diplomatic immunity.
Harry Dunn's family say it is 'appalling' and 'inhumane' that she is able to leave the country after their son's death
Immunity usually only covers those diplomats and their dependants based in London.
However, Sky News has been told a special arrangement has been in place as early as 1994 for this particular base.
Government ministers have called for the American woman to return to the UK to answer questions about the incident."
in USA the rich and powerful always escape justice. The legal systems, courts and politics is totally corrupt in the USA. Its not the land of the free and brave, but the land of the unfree and frightened.
Tony_Galway: in USA the rich and powerful always escape justice. The legal systems, courts and politics is totally corrupt in the USA. Its not the land of the free and brave, but the land of the unfree and frightened.
It appears by others comments all countries have diplomatic immunities. Pity this mother does not feel it is the correct thing to do though
Tony_Galway: in USA the rich and powerful always escape justice. The legal systems, courts and politics is totally corrupt in the USA. Its not the land of the free and brave, but the land of the unfree and frightened.
you really are talking out of your ***************************,it happened in the UK,and Diplomatic Immunity is an International Convention!
EXRED: No but will look it up, it appears this women was not a diplomats wife and the reporters who have tried to track her say she has not gone home she is in hiding. A mother herself of young kids so surely she would understand or is she being put under pressure from other people ???
I am somewhat puzzled that a refined lady like red would not have remembered Yvonne Fletcher ,,, the fact that it was top national and international news at the time in 1984,, this leaves me stunned. ,,, Maybe she was otherwise busy ,,,
has nothing to do with American women, it can be American Men as well, the sad truth is we are faced with illiterate, drug edicts who act and run the streets in anyways they wish, wrong side, wrong entrance, red lights, no speed limits , no signs what so ever means nothing to those illiterate drunks, it's a sad reality.
Ano751: has nothing to do with American women, it can be American Men as well, the sad truth is we are faced with illiterate, drug edicts who act and run the streets in anyways they wish, wrong side, wrong entrance, red lights, no speed limits , no signs what so ever means nothing to those illiterate drunks, it's a sad reality.
raphael119washington d.c., District of Columbia USA5,181 posts
Go overseas, get in crime trouble, see what happens.
Diplomatic immunity has been a worldwide controversy since it started . When a diplomat kills it becomes an international incident, and it should be one.
EXRED: Chesney news these days we cannot rely on, first I heard she was staying she told police. then heard she was ordered back home sharpish then that she was not a diplomate's wife
All I do no for sure she killed a young man as she was driving wrong side of the road.
Then I heard trump tweet apparently saying it happens then that he was looking into it.
Plenty of fake news on this one.
By most comments it happens all over too
Coming back is an easy way to get out of a lot of silly bother. I don't associate remorse with Donald Trump in any way, but this is a particularly pointless get-out. Even without a conscience motive it's a good thing to apologise to the family and salvage your image.
michaelright: I am somewhat puzzled that a refined lady like red would not have remembered Yvonne Fletcher ,,, the fact that it was top national and international news at the time in 1984,, this leaves me stunned. ,,, Maybe she was otherwise busy ,,,
Michael yes I now no who she was 1984 it happened, it was horrific, I think all diplomats were thrown out of country?
Maybe diplomatic laws should be changed in this day and age.?
ChesneyChrist: Coming back is an easy way to get out of a lot of silly bother. I don't associate remorse with Donald Trump in any way, but this is a particularly pointless get-out. Even without a conscience motive it's a good thing to apologise to the family and salvage your image.
Chesney yes as the law stands stupid or not, she has a right to claim immunity but a letter to the boys parents at the very least would help them, they are not after revenge just want to know exactly what happened and why she was on wrong side of road
It’s not the first time…that women have got away with murdering men and escaped any punishment…it’s only going to get worse and worse for men…feminism is the reason and women are always going to hold the victim card up...cause it never fails them
LeeCharming: It’s not the first time…that women have got away with murdering men and escaped any punishment…it’s only going to get worse and worse for men…feminism is the reason and women are always going to hold the victim card up...cause it never fails them
Lee not so I think things will even out in a hundred years or so.
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Mrs Sacoolas, 42, has claimed diplomatic immunity and left the UK for America after 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed in a head-on collision while riding his motorbike.
Police believe Mrs Sacoolas was on the wrong side of the road as she emerged from Northamptonshire's RAF Croughton on 27 August.
Sky News is naming her after earlier revealing a deal gives diplomats and their families at the US spy base diplomatic immunity.
Harry Dunn's family say it is 'appalling' and 'inhumane' that she is able to leave the country after their son's death
Immunity usually only covers those diplomats and their dependants based in London.
However, Sky News has been told a special arrangement has been in place as early as 1994 for this particular base.
Government ministers have called for the American woman to return to the UK to answer questions about the incident."
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