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The wife of a U.S. intelligence officer will face British court proceedings in January over the death of teenager Harry Dunn, the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service said Monday.
Anne Sacoolas is accused of killing Dunn in a road crash near Northamptonshire after a car hit the teenager’s motorbike in August 2019. She left the U.K. shortly after the incident, after diplomatic immunity was asserted on her behalf by the U.S. government.
The Crown Prosecution Service authorized Northamptonshire Police to charge Sacoolas with causing death by dangerous driving in December 2019. But the subsequent extradition request for Sacoolas to be returned to the U.K. was rejected by the U.S. government, heightening diplomatic tensions between London and Washington.
The case will be heard at Westminster Magistrates Court on January 18. The PA news agency reported that Sacoolas will appear via video link.
Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles told the PA her family is feeling “very emotional and overwhelmed, having just learned the news that Mrs Sacoolas is now to face our justice system.”
She added: “It is all that we asked for following Harry’s death.”
Source: Politico
