US Government Employee Avoids Jail for Causing Death of UK Motorcyclist Harry Dunn

US Government Employee Avoids Jail for Causing Death of UK Motorcyclist Harry Dunn
Harry Dunn in an undated file photo. Family handout/PA
Chris Summers
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LONDON—Anne Sacoolas, a U.S. government employee and the wife of a U.S. diplomat, has been sentenced in absentia to a suspended sentence of eight months in prison, after pleading guilty to careless driving for causing the death of motorcyclist Harry Dunn in August 2019.

Sacoolas, 45, appeared on Dec. 7 at the Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey, by videolink from her home in the United States to hear the sentence passed by Mrs. Justice Cheema-Grubb.

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