The family of Harry Dunn is to begin legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).<\/p>\n
Harry, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in a crash with a car owned by US citizen Anne Sacoolas, who later left the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n
Earlier the Dunn family held a meeting with human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC.<\/p>\n
Family spokesperson Radd Seiger told Sky News: “The first action we will be taking is against the FCO.”<\/p>\n
The family has also referred Northamptonshire Police to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).<\/p>\n
A Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said the force would be happy to support the IOPC with any concerns raised by the family.<\/p>\n
Mr Seiger said: “We will be shortly issuing a letter of claim which is a prelude to a judicial review.<\/p>\n
“We are absolutely clear that the Foreign Office’s decision to advise Northamptonshire Police that Mrs Sacoolas had the benefit of diplomatic immunity was unlawful and we will be seeking a judicial review of that decision to have it quashed.”<\/p>\n
He also appealed for Mrs Sacoolas “to come back to this country and face the music”.<\/p>\n
An FCO spokeswoman said: “We have done everything we can properly to clear a path so that justice can be done for Harry’s family.<\/p>\n
“As the foreign secretary set out in Parliament, the individual involved had diplomatic immunity whilst in the country under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”<\/p>\n
The FCO said it would respond to any legal action in due course.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Northamptonshire Police Chief Constable Nick Adderley said Mrs Sacoolas would be\u00a0interviewed under caution<\/a>\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n Officers are waiting for the necessary visas.<\/p>\n Mr Seiger said the force had “not disclosed all the information this family are entitled to”.<\/p>\n “We have deep concerns about the manner in which this investigation was conducted, and simply adding insult to injury to this family at their darkest hour,” he added.<\/p>\n Mr Adderley had previously said Northamptonshire Police had at all times “acted with the utmost integrity and transparency”.<\/p>\n Mr Seiger said: “This family have a steely determination about them to ensure that Harry has not died in vain.<\/p>\n “I think the whole nation, the whole world now, is looking at this set of circumstances and it isn’t right.”<\/p>\n Mr Dunn’s motorbike was in a collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August. He later died in hospital.<\/p>\n Mrs Sacoolas’ husband Jonathan is a US intelligence official who was working at the base at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n Both the British and US governments agree that by returning to the US Mrs Sacoolas forfeited the right to diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n