Harry Dunn: US driver advised not to attend sentencing in person

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Harry Dunn died pursuing a collision extracurricular RAF Croughton successful Northamptonshire successful 2019

A US pistillate who killed a teenage motorcyclist volition not be her sentencing proceeding successful idiosyncratic aft proposal from her American employer.

Anne Sacoolas, 45, admitted causing the death of Harry Dunn, 19, by careless driving via video-link astatine the Old Bailey successful October.

She had been urged by the British judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, to instrumentality to the UK to look justice.

A renewed exertion for her to look via video-link has been granted.

Sacoolas was driving connected the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy adjacent RAF Croughton, a US aerial basal successful Northamptonshire, erstwhile she crashed her Volvo and killed the motorcyclist successful August 2019.

She had diplomatic immunity asserted connected her behalf by the US medication pursuing the collision, and near the UK 19 days later.

The US authorities advised Sacoolas not to be her sentencing proceeding astatine the Old Bailey connected Thursday.

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