Harry Dunn's parents tell diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas: We'll only meet if you promise to return to UK

Harry Dunn’s family have said they will only meet the US woman suspected of of causing his death if she promises to return to Britain.

Mr Dunn’s parents have travelled to the United States after diplomat’s wife Anne Sacoolas fled home following the fatal crash in Northamptonshire in August.

Dunn family spokesman Radd Seiger told Sky News the condition was a “non-negotiable red line in the sand” if Mrs Sacoolas wished to meet with the teenager’s parents while they are in America.

Mr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike crashed into a car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on August 27.

Mrs Sacoolas, 42, has been said by the US to be covered by diplomatic immunity as the spouse of a US intelligence official, though that protection is now in dispute.

Mr Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, flew to the US on Sunday to, as Mr Seiger said, “put pressure on the US administration to do the right thing”.

Ms Charles said before boarding her flight that she had received a letter from Mrs Sacoolas expressing her “deepest sympathies and apologies”.

“To be perfectly honest, yes, it’s the start of some closure for our family,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

“Having said that, as it’s nearly seven weeks now since we lost our boy, sorry just doesn’t cut it”.

On Saturday night, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) wrote to the family to say Mrs Sacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity because she was back in the US.

Foreign Secretary Mr Raab said in the letter the matter was now “in the hands” of Northamptonshire Police and the CPS.

An FCO spokesman told the PA news agency that the office “would not be commenting further on the content of the letter”.

Before the letter was sent by the FCO, the family’s lawyer Mark Stephens told PA: “There are approximately 20,000 official diplomats in this country - there’s a definitive list of who is and who isn’t.

“We know definitively that this guy was not a diplomat and therefore was not entitled to diplomatic immunity. That has a number of consequences.

“That means that the Americans have made a false claim. She would not have been entitled to claim diplomatic immunity.”

Meanwhile, Mrs Sacoolas’s legal representative Amy Jeffress, from the law firm Arnold and Porter, said: “Anne is devastated by this tragic accident.

“No loss compares to the death of a child and Anne extends her deepest sympathy to Harry Dunn’s family.”

Additional reporting by PA Media

Read more

Patel tight-lipped on whether Harry Dunn suspect could be extradited