Did she claim diplomatic immunity when she left or did she sneak out and then claim diplomatic immunity?
If the case was being investigated and she left without permission and claimed diplomatic immunity after she left I believe there's a case to send her back.
A sad, sad case. There are no winners here, everyone is a victim
Regardless, she had liability insurance, which I assume British law requires on all automobiles as well. Have the liability insurance throw in the policy to the boy’s family.
What does being “held accountable” look like to these parents? What is the final outcome that would satisfy them? Maybe that final outcome can be reached without her returning. A diplomat (or family) travels on a special passport and should not be prevented from departing a country.
She needs to go back and face the music!
She needs to go back and face the music!
I think but by no means positive, is that she claimed diplomatic immunity and said she would not leave, then left.
If you go bending diplomat immunity rules, when does it stop?
I don’t think she did it intentionally. Does anyone?
Diplomatic immunity rules apply.
UK diplomatic personages in the US and likewise US diplomats in the U K as well as in other closely allied Western nations are told that they will obey the laws of the host nations and face the music if they break the laws.
They are instructed not to abuse diplomatic immunity.
This woman did not want to face the music.
I saw this on CBS and was wondering why Americans aren’t mourned the same way and international uproars abound like this when illegals kill Americans by drunk or careless driving.
Before everyone gets all huffy, remember we have those thousands of UN officials and those 200 or so country diplomats with diplomatic immunity. Before you get all crazy, investigate how many Americans have been killed or injured with the foreign diplomats claiming immunity. Bet you will be surprised.
Matthew Broderick did the same thing and killed two people.
He got a fine of $175.00
On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher, 28,[34] accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, killing both instantly. He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he began dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; the crash publicly revealed their relationship. He had a fractured leg and ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey received minor injuries, including whiplash.
Broderick told police he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane: “I don’t remember the day. I don’t remember even getting up in the morning. I don’t remember making my bed. What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg.” He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, but was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175
Diplomatic immunity is generally a absolutely disgusting excuse for anything truly against a civil law (yes,that's relative in sh*tholes). The major problem (irregardless of this case) is that if Americans did not have it, America would have thousands in prisons for crimes that would never get the light of day under our Constitution.I digress,the left has their own immunity today and will use this as one more Trump hating example ("Impeachment").
The US embassy claimed diplomatic immunity and whisked her out of the country. Apparently her husband works in intelligence so that might have complicated things. Her name was kept secret to begin with.
The purpose of diplomatic immunity is to prevent unjust prosecution of our diplomats and families and their diplomats and families in a political prosecution.
This tragic death was not political. Trump should order stripping this woman of diplomatic immunity and let the UK extradite her back to the UK to face charges.
Remember a couple of years ago, when some Saudi Prince sodomized some young woman when she and others were attending a party at his mansion in California? She was bleeding and screaming for help, trying to climb over a stone wall around his property. He left the country immediately, using diplomatic immunity. As far as I know, that was the end of it.
It’s tragic about the kid in the U.K., but it was an accident. I would say she should go back and face the music, but she may end up with a judge who has it in for the U.S., and gives her an unfair sentence. So it’s a risky proposition. If the government could assure our government that she would not be given an unfair sentence, maybe she should go back and face the music.