Posted on 10/05/2019 4:59:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
FULL HEADLINE: "'This is disgraceful, no way for a so-called ally to behave': Outrage on BOTH sides of the Atlantic as America REFUSES to waive diplomatic immunity for diplomat's wife who has fled back to the States after 'killing British teen in wrong-way crash'"
In a statement on Saturday, Northamptonshire Police confirmed that the 42-year-old American woman suspected in the August 27 death of Harry Dunn, 19, has returned to the U.S.
Police said the woman had previously informed them that she had no plans to leave the UK. Neither the name of the woman nor her U.S. diplomat spouse has been released.
Superintendent Sarah Johnson with Northamptonshire police said that investigators met with the suspect on the day after the crash in the presence of legal advisors.
'During the course of that meeting we were aware that diplomatic immunity had been raised as an issue, we then made immediate application for a waiver in order for us to undertake further investigations and interview,' Johnson told NBC News in an email.
Harry, of Charlton, Banbury, died after his motorbike collided with a car near RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.
The RAF base is one of the most important bases run by America in Europe.
It was reported in initial findings by police that Harry had been driving on the correct side of the road when a woman in a car pulled off of the airbase on to the wrong side of the carriageway.
The car hit Harry head-on and he died soon after in hospital after suffering multiple injuries.
The teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, are now demanding that the suspect return to the UK to face justice, saying they've been 'totally deprived of the ability to grieve'.
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Of course, if Carter had done so he might have gotten re-elected.
Americans traditionally rally around the flag in those instances.
Agreed. That seems like a reasonable offer.
Send her back
I drove in Japan for several years and found myself driving on the wrong side of the road when I was home on leave once. Fortunately, it was a rural area and I quickly corrected the problem making a mental note that the side with the steering wheel should always be nearest the centerline on two-way streets.
Including the Mojados that entered South of the border? Including the OTM's?
I was referring to the countries that drive on the opposite side of the road from us. You’re talking about something else entirely.
I would guess that is how they drive in their home countries when they are sh** faced from booze.
The US pressured Georgia into issuing an immunity waiver when one of its diplomats killed a US citizen in a drunk driving incident some time ago. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-20-mn-531-story.html diplomatic immunity should be waived in instances where an accredited person has committed a bona fide crime and is using it to escape justice.
The US pressured Georgia (the country, not the state) into waiving diplomatic immunity on one of its diplomats. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-20-mn-531-story.html It seems reasonable to me that diplomatic immunity should not be used to shield people from justice. The intention of diplomatic immunity was to shield diplomats from politically motivated prosecutions, but a non-rogue state should not be protecting its diplomats from justice when they have committed a genuine crime. That is an utter abuse.
There are often no bases in overseas locations with a significant US military presence. They wouldn’t be there without a status of forces agreement.
This isn’t about ‘The Limeys’, this is about the family of a teenage boy who was killed because this woman was a reckless driver. This isn’t the sort of thing that should be subjected to international politics, only justice.
Fair point. The ‘Rules of the Road’ are definitely different in many countries where life is cheap.
Yup.
I dont think when diplomats or their family members screw up any ought to receive automatic diplomatic immunity, nome of them.
They do drive on the wrong side of the road.
Since no one is willing to name her:
Was she a protected class?
Was her spouse male or female?
How long had she worked for the CIA?
Well, first of all, the American killer wasn't a diplomat, she was the spouse of a diplomat.
So a similar case can be found in 2018, when Britain waived diplomatic immunity for Youssef Amrouche, the husband of a British diplomat, so he could be dealt with in New York City.
Only banana republics are doing it. Normal practice is to repatriate the perp for prosecution is a home country.
How about England change their ridiculous street direction. I can see how an American could screw that up.
Send her cowardly ass back. When someone is killed there should be no immunity, especially for a diplomat’s family member. Rest in peace poor kid.
In 1988 in Coral Cables where I lived my then wife ...
A Brazilian bombshell ....was T-boned at Granada and Alhambra at midnight by the wife of the Chilean consul in Miami
The consul’s wife was drunk ...clearly.....the Officer temporarily arrested her
My ex was not hurt...I lived two blocks away and heard the crash.....she was returning from the home of some Colombian friends of ours who lived in Kendall
When I go there a security agent for the consulate soon arrived and gave me his card and told me he’d see I could pick up my check or cash the next morning at an office on Brickell since the car was totaled
Which we did. It was a 1984 300SD ....I think it was 30,000 in fresh bills
The wife was sent home to Santiago promptly, the Chilean spook told the cop that night he couldn’t arrest her and the cops lieutenant concurred
As I understood it the home nation of the diplomat has right to allow prosecution even in serious crimes
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