"The United States has extended pre-emptive, limited waivers of certain diplomatic immunities pertaining to the staff of the Embassy office in Croughton and their family members for acts performed outside the course of official duties that occur on or after July 20, 2020," a spokesperson told NPR. The State Department confirmed the revised arrangement. However, I hope that the knowledge that the Croughton arrangements have been revised and that a family in their position would now see justice done brings some small measure of comfort." "No family should have to experience what they have gone through and I recognise that these changes will not bring Harry back. "We have the deepest sympathy for Harry Dunn's family," the statement continued. This ends "the anomaly in the previous arrangements" and allows for criminal prosecution of family members "should these tragic circumstances every arise again," Raab said. Now, that arrangement has been expanded to waive immunity for their family members as well, Raab said in a statement.
staff there outside of the course of their official duties. Since 1995, diplomatic immunity hasn't applied to U.S.
State Department, the two countries agreed to revise the "immunity arrangements" at the Croughton Royal Air Force station annex for U.S. shortly after the incident, despite telling police she had no plans to leave the U.K.Īfter discussions with the U.S. diplomat, hit the man while driving on the wrong side of the road after she left a nearby air force base. Police say that Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. Harry Dunn, 19, was struck by a car and killed last August while riding a motorbike in Northamptonshire, in central England. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, is aimed at making it more difficult for the families of some diplomats to claim immunity. diplomat fled the country after allegedly killing a young man with her car.
have revised their diplomatic immunity rules, almost a year after the wife of a U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walk up the stairs in the Foreign Office in London on Tuesday. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left, and U.S.
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