Dominic Raab under renewed pressure over Sacoolas extradition
Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, has come under new pressure by the family of tragic Northamtonshire teenager, Harry Dunn, to explain himself before Parliament over Harry’s killer’s escape from Britain.
The renewed pressure on Raab follows the issuing of a Red Notice by Interpol which effectively renders Anne Sacoolas an international fugitive.
A former CIA operative, Sacoolas killed young Harry outside RAF Croughton (which houses a US spy base) by crashing her car into his motorcycle last August.
Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road at the point of collision and was under police investigation before she claimed diplomatic immunity and fled the UK.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has long been suspected of facilitating Sacoolas’ escape.
The FCO has never adequately explained why Sacoolas, who was not working at the base and was merely living there with her husband who is a serving US spy, should be entitled to diplomatic immunity.
In the light of Interpol’s unprecedented intervention (this is the first time a serving or former CIA officer has been placed on a Red Notice alert), Harry’s mother Charlotte Charles told The Times (May 12) that Raab should be held accountable before MPs at the House of Commons over the scandal.
Meanwhile, Radd Seiger, who is an adviser to the Dunn family, has stepped up the pressure on the British government by claiming that Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, turned a blind eye to the outrage because of his single-minded pursuit of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.
1/ It is now perfectly clear that the UK Govt allowed #annesacoolas to leave the UK unlawfully, thereby interfering in @NorthantsPolice's investigation into #harrydunn's death. The question is why. Was @BorisJohnson so desperate for a trade deal with the US in the Brexit furore
— Radd Seiger (@RaddSeiger) May 13, 2020
Whilst the US government has flatly rejected demands for Sacoolas’ extradition to the UK, the #JusticeforHarry movement remains undeterred and is hopeful of an eventual breakthrough in the case.
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