US Diplomat’s Wife Will Not Return to UK for Sentencing Over Fatal Car Crash

US Diplomat’s Wife Will Not Return to UK for Sentencing Over Fatal Car Crash
A banner and a memorial area for British teenager Harry Dunn who died in a road traffic collision is pictured near to the entrance of RAF Croughton, in Croughton, near Brackley, Britain, on June 11, 2021. Andrew Boyers/Reuters
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LONDON—Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, will not return to Britain for sentencing this week after admitting causing the death of a teenager by driving carelessly in England three years ago, a British court has said.

Harry Dunn, 19, died in August 2019 after his motorcycle was hit by a car driven on the wrong side of the road by Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, an air force base in the English county of Northamptonshire that is used by the U.S. military.