Officials Lost Opportunities to Influence US on Dunn Suspect’s Immunity – Review

Officials Lost Opportunities to Influence US on Dunn Suspect’s Immunity – Review
Harry Dunn was killed when a car, driven by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, crashed into his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in August 2019 Family handout/PA
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The Foreign Office failed to treat the Harry Dunn case as a crisis and lost “opportunities to influence” the US after diplomatic immunity was asserted on behalf of the suspect, an independent review has concluded.

Former foreign secretary David Lammy officially launched the review into the case in July, with the report’s author Dame Anne Owers highlighting “failings and omissions” in the department when dealing with Harry’s death in August 2019.