Tonight, UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab addressed the House of Commons about the Harry Dunn case. The news is that he will review the bilateral arrangements that are currently in place.
Mr Raab said he had commissioned a review into immunity arrangements for US personnel and their families at the RAF Croughton annex in light of this case.
"As this case has demonstrated, I do not believe the current arrangements are right and the review will look at how we can make sure that the arrangements at Croughton cannot be used in this way again," he said.
He said the case was "now with Northamptonshire Police and Crown Prosecution Service and it is for them to consider the next steps as part of their criminal investigation".
Predictably, the family's lawyer-spokesman is sticking to his sad fantasy that the American driver really didn't have immunity at all. Oh, the UK Foreign Office thought she did, but what would they know about diplomatic business? All it needs now is for the Northamptonshire Police to track her down and slap the cuffs on her.
The Dunn family lawyer Radd Seiger told Sky News that Mr Raab's statement added insult to injury. He said that Mrs Sacoolas did not have immunity at all.
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The Dunn family position is that she did not have diplomatic immunity because her husband was not a diplomat and no diplomatic work was taking place at RAF Croughton.
He said "nobody wants to go to the courts" but that they have lawyers ready to go "on both sides of the Atlantic" because of their frustration with the current results of their efforts.
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Mrs Charles and Mr Dunn also say they have heard rumours that Northamptonshire officers were on the way to the US to continue their investigation and asked to find out what the purpose of the visit would be.
The family also wanted to know about the potential to charge and extradite Mrs Sacoolas back to the UK.
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Mr Seiger continued: "We have been told that Northamptonshire Police are either in the US or are on their way from the UK - either going to the States to interview her or see Donald Trump."
I like the "nobody wants to go to the courts" line from Mr. Seiger, the classic tell of a lawyer who wouldn't be caught dead in a courtroom.
So, the next step is up to the Crown Prosecution Service: do they think they can request extradition?
6 comments:
TSB: You are the only one on top of this international diplomadic/legal intrigue. Is there any way they could get the Queen involved? She gave a great speech today on the government's plans to address various issues. I like her accent. It is very easy for a large audience to understand. gwb
I'm surprised this matter hasn't gotten more public interest in the U.S. It's out of the Queen's purview, but the FCO isn't done bringing the consequences to those USG employees still in the UK.
TSB: “Clearly there’s something about her and her policies that attracts and appeals to these type of people who are white nationalists, anti-Semites, and Holocaust deniers.” This is from Tulsi's opponent for her seat in congress who clearly agrees with Hillary and NYT that she is a worse threat to our country than Venezuela. Hundreds of think tank types agree with her...after reading all this Jimmy Carter fell down the stairs and broke his hip! gwb
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cj-hopkins-putin-nazis-are-coming-again
Poor Jimmy Carter! He hit his head a week or so ago, and now his hip. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even someone who presided over an economy so horrible that they had to invent the term "stagflation" to describe it, with its 18 percent interest rates, 13.3 percent inflation, and 7.3 percent unemployment. For fun, we enjoyed having gas lines.
TSB I didn't even know Tulsi's challenger is a guy until today. Yesterday I got to see Tulsi for about 10 min at the Fortune Women's Summit. She got a couple sprinkles of polite applause but the interesting thing was how frightened the interviewer seemed. These billionaire CEO s of places like Lockheed Martin weren't too impressed by a National Guard Major who blames them for most of the ills in the world.
Women Are CEO’s Of Top Weapons Manufactures. I loved how cool, gracious, smiling and reassuring she was as the interviewers eyes kept darting toward the audience. https://youtu.be/FLM1Rt7iLPA Once again Dore is the only one reporting this great moment... billionaire women vs a soldier polling at 3%. gwb
Speaking of females in charge of our top weapons manufacturers, did you see that up and coming Republican woman Nikki Haley just became Boeing's newest member of its Board of Directors?
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