Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they will only meet with Anna Sacoolas if she returns to the UK (Picture: Rex/PA)

The parents of Harry Dunn have said they will only meet the US diplomat’s wife suspected of causing their son’s death on one condition – that she returns to the UK.

Harry, 19, was killed when his motorbike collided with a car outside an RAF base, in Northamptonshire, on August 27.

US officials had said the suspect, Anna Sacoolas, 42, was covered by diplomatic immunity – after she went back to the states following the crash – but her protection is now in dispute.

Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, flew to the US on Sunday to drum up support and ‘put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing’.




Ms Charles said before boarding her flight that she had received a letter from Mrs Sacoolas’ lawyer explaining how her client wanted to meet the teenager’s parents to offer her ‘deepest sympathies and apologies’.

But the Dunn family’s spokesman, Radd Seiger, has told Sky News the condition of Mrs Sacoolas returning to the UK was a ‘non-negotiable red line in the sand’ if she wished to meet with the family.

Mrs Sacoolas went back to the US after the crash

Harry Dunn, 19, was killed after his motorbike collided with a car (Picture: Justice4Harry)

After receiving the letter, Ms Charles said that it had provided some closure but wasn’t enough to make up for almost two months of fighting for answers.

‘To be perfectly honest, yes, it’s the start of some closure for our family,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.

‘Having said that, as it’s nearly seven weeks now since we lost our boy, sorry just doesn’t cut it’.

It comes after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to the parents to say Mrs Sacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity and the investigation would now be a matter for Northamptonshire Police and the CPS.

The letter, sent by Mr Raab to the family, said: ‘We have pressed strongly for a waiver of immunity, so that justice can be done… Whilst the US government has steadfastly declined to give that waiver, that is not the end of the matter.

‘We have looked at this very carefully… the UK Government’s position is that immunity, and therefore any question of waiver, is no longer relevant in Mrs Sacoolas’ case, because she has returned home.’

Harry’s parents said they haven’t been able to grieve since their son’s death due to the ordeal of fighting for answers (Picture: Rex/ITV)

Charlotte, Harry’s mum, and her partner said they have been ‘living in a nightmare’ (Picture: PA)

A letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) stated: ‘The US have now informed us that they too consider that immunity is no longer pertinent.’

Before the letter was sent by the FCO, the family’s lawyer Mark Stephens said: ‘There are approximately 20,000 official diplomats in this country – there’s a definitive list of who is and who isn’t.

‘We know definitively that this guy was not a diplomat and therefore was not entitled to diplomatic immunity. That has a number of consequences.

‘That means that the Americans have made a false claim. She would not have been entitled to claim diplomatic immunity.’



Meanwhile, Mrs Sacoolas’ legal representative Amy Jeffress, from the law firm Arnold and Porter, said: ‘Anne is devastated by this tragic accident.

‘No loss compares to the death of a child and Anne extends her deepest sympathy to Harry Dunn’s family.’

On Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said America was ‘absolutely ruthless’ in its safeguarding of Mrs Sacoolas following the decision to grant her diplomatic immunity.

Mr Johnson said although President Donald Trump was sympathetic towards Mr Dunn’s family’s views on the use of diplomatic immunity, the US was “very reluctant” to allow its citizens to be tried abroad.

Speaking ahead of taking their campaign to the US, Harry’s family said in a statement that they ‘continue to live in a nightmare’ and have so far been unable to grieve after his death.

A statement released on behalf of the family said: ‘As if losing Harry was not enough, they now find themselves having to expend enormous time and energy, which they can ill afford, generating sufficient publicity to garner public support to persuade the US government to help achieve closure and return the driver Mrs Sacoolas to England to face the consequences of her actions.’

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