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US diplomat’s wife given suspended jail term for fatal UK car crash

December 9, 2022
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LONDON – Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, was given an eight-month jail term suspended for 12 months in a London court on Thursday (Dec 8) for causing the death of a teenager by careless driving in a fatal crash in England in 2019.

Harry Dunn, 19, died in August 2019 after his motorcycle was in a collision with a car driven by Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, an air force base in the English county of Northamptonshire that is used by the US military.

Sacoolas, who pleaded guilty in October, did not attend her sentencing at London’s Old Bailey central criminal court, but appeared by videolink from the United States.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said a witness at the scene of the crash had recounted how Harry repeatedly said “don’t let me die”.

He said Sacoolas had admitted at the scene that it was her fault and she had been on the wrong side of the road, later telling police officers that she had been driving on “the American side”.

Sacoolas, whose husband worked as a US intelligence officer at the base, left Britain shortly after the accident, claiming diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution and the US refused to extradite her.

The crash led to a diplomatic spat between London and Washington, with the British government backing the call for Sacoolas to be prosecuted.

Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Sacoolas’ lawyers had told the court before the sentencing hearing that their client had been advised by the US government not to attend in person as it “could place significant US interests at risk”.

She read out a statement from Sacoolas’ US lawyer which said: “The US government does not in any way support Mrs Sacoolas appearing in person at this hearing. In fact, Mrs Sacoolas’ US government employer has advised her not to attend.”

This article was first published in Asia One . All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.

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