Foreign Secretary tries to justify the FCO's highly unpopular action
The Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, is struggling to defend the Foreign and Commonwealth’s (FCO) decision to claim legal costs from Harry Dunn’s grieving family.
Young Harry was unlawfully killed by the wife of an American spy who crashed her car into his motorbike near the exit to RAF Croughton (which serves as a US intelligence base) in late August.
The driver, Anne Sacoolas, subsequently fled the UK, alongside her spy husband, whilst claiming diplomatic immunity.
Sacoolas’s escape from justice was aided and abetted by the FCO.
The Dunn family is taking Raab to court on the grounds that he abused his power by granting diplomatic immunity to police suspect Sacoolas.
The FCO says it will oppose the Dunn family’s legal action and has tried to pressure them to drop the case.
Raab tried to justify the FCO’s highly unpopular decision by telling Sky News: “We just cannot responsibly allow ourselves to be sued without taking the normal action in defending ourselves when the position that the representative and the family are pursuing in law is wrong”.
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