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Harry Dunn Mother Charlotte Charles makes tearful appeal to Joe Biden

Monday, 18 January 2021 5:05 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 18 January 2021 5:05 PM ]

A tearful and distraught Charlotte Charles pleaded with incoming US President Joe Biden to intervene directly in her son's case by extraditing his killer to the UK

With no sign of an imminent breakthrough in the Harry Dunn case, the tragic Northamptonshire teenager’s mother, Charlotte Charles, has saw fit to once again reach out to incoming US President, Joe Biden.

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Harry Dunn

But this time Charlotte’s message had a distinctly personal touch, the voice of a powerless bereaved mother reaching out to the most powerful man in the world, once Biden takes office on Wednesday (20 January).

“Please President Biden help me to restart to rebuild my life. Please send Anne Sacoolas back to the UK to face our justice system”, Charlotte pleaded with Biden.

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Harry Dunn

Harry, 19, was killed in August 2019 after former US spy, Anne Sacoolas, crashed into his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, which houses a US spy base.

Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road at the time, a point that was raised by Charlotte in her emotional appeal.

“He [Harry] was just out enjoying his passion [by riding his motorbike]. He’d done nothing wrong. He was on the correct side of the road”, Charlotte said tearfully.

Sacoolas, who is married to a serving US spy formerly based at RAF Croughton, subsequently evaded justice by claiming diplomatic immunity and fleeing the UK.

The UK Foreign Office has come under intense scrutiny for clandestinely helping Sacoolas flee the UK before she could face the justice system.

To make matters worse, the Foreign Office has given every impression that it is out to sabotage the Dunn family’s fight for justice.

In the latest scandal, leaked internal Foreign Office documents attack both Charlotte and the Dunn family’s spokesman Radd Seiger.

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Charlotte Charles’ latest outreach to Biden is a sign of the family’s complete loss of faith in both the Foreign Office and the British judiciary’s willingness or ability to facilitate Sacoolas’ extradition to the UK.