Anne Sacoolas Identity revealed of diplomat's wife who fatally hit British teen and claimed immunity
Source: Sky News
The wife of a US diplomat who fatally hit a British teenager and left the country is Anne Sacoolas, Sky News can reveal.
Mrs Sacoolas, 42, has claimed diplomatic immunity and left the UK for America after 19-year-old Harry Dunn was killed in a head-on collision while riding his motorbike.
Police believe Mrs Sacoolas was on the wrong side of the road as she emerged from Northamptonshire's RAF Croughton on 27 August.
Sky News is naming her after earlier revealing a deal gives diplomats and their families at the US spy base diplomatic immunity.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/anne-sacoolas-identity-revealed-of-diplomats-wife-who-fatally-hit-british-teen-and-claimed-immunity-11829478
This lad was killed because she was driving on the wrong side of the road over the brow of a hill. She told police that she has no intention to leave UK jurisdiction then high tailed it back to the US. Diplomatic immunity my arse. She is married to someone who does stuff, and therefore gets to escape any investigation of what happened that night. That sticks.
Farmer-Rick
(10,212 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)("from the American side" to return immediately to the US.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)When situations can be dodgy. For example, in Istanbul my father was the highest ranking army officer. Definitely not good if he'd ended up in a Turkish prison for something that could be prevented. With that in mind, dad was given two chauffeurs so he could never be responsible for a traffic accident. Made sense.
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)...in the same bed with her security detail.
getagrip_already
(14,838 posts)the UK isn't exactly turkey. They were investigating this as a crime, which tells me it wasn't just a case of distraction or a blind spot. Accidents are terrible things, but they aren't typically investigated as crimes.
That indicates alcohol, reckless driving, or road rage of some kind. If it was just an accident, why not just stick around and cooperate?
Is her husband a political appointee or career officer of some kind?
tblue37
(65,490 posts)getagrip_already
(14,838 posts)bet they had words over that one.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Prosecute.
Diplomatic immunity is bullshit. Commit the crime, do the time. I don't give a fuck who you are.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Parking tickets is one thing. Death is quite another. And she isn't the actual diplomat, she's married to one.
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ck4829
(35,091 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)My son, an American, was over in London. He had a minor fender bender with his rental car.
He told me that the police did a road side DUI check on both himself and the other driver as a routine
step in the accident investigation. Not based on suspicion, but just a routine thing.
Can anyone here tell me if that's so? And, if it is, and this diplomat's wife was intoxicated,
the police would have known at the scene.
Neema
(1,151 posts)a few weeks so I would venture to guess she spaced out. I would hope that she wasn't drunk with her 12 year old son in the car, but who knows. Still, she killed someone with her carelessness and should pay the price.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)This isn't a parking ticket. Killing someone shouldn't be covered by diplomatic immunity.
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tblue37
(65,490 posts)IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)912gdm
(959 posts)a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)I hope this person has nightmares the rest of her life. I hope she never gets another good nights sleep again.