Harry Dunn’s family cancel meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury because they are ‘struggling emotionally’ as they continue campaign for justice
- Charlotte Charles, 44, and Tim Dunn, 50, planned meet Justin Welby in London
- Family spokesperson Radd Seigar announced the pair have cancelled meeting
- He also called on CPS to charge US citizen Anne Sacoolas over Harry Dunn death
Harry Dunn was killed when a car driven by a US spy’s wife smashed into his motorbike
A meeting between the parents of Harry Dunn and the Archbishop of Canterbury has been cancelled because they are ‘struggling emotionally’.
Charlotte Charles, 44, and Tim Dunn, 50, had been due to meet the leader of the Church of England at Lambeth Palace in London on Wednesday afternoon.
But family spokesman Radd Seigar announced on Twitter today that the pair have had to ‘cancel our media commitments’ and the meeting with Justin Welby and are ‘heading back home’.
He also called on the CPS to charge US citizen Anne Sacoolas, 42, over the 19-year-old’s death in a road collision in August.
‘Unfortunately Harry Dunn’s parents are having a terrible struggle emotionally today so we have had to cancel our media commitments and the meeting with @JustinWelby and they are heading back home’, he wrote.
‘Come on @cpsuk, please put them out of their misery. #justice4harry @Justice4Harry’.
In October, Mr Welby wrote to the US ambassador in London to demand Mrs Sacoolas be returned to the UK to be quizzed about the car crash that killed Harry.
Mrs Sacoolas admitted she had been driving on the wrong side of the road when she hit the teenager on a motorbike outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in August.
Justin Welby called on the CPS to charge US citizen Anne Sacoolas (pictured) over the 19-year-old’s death in a road collision in August
She then claimed diplomatic immunity and returned to the US.
The Archbishop said the driver should be returned to the UK to allow a ‘full a proper investigation’.
A spokesman for Mr Welby, 63, said: ‘The Archbishop has written to the US ambassador Robert Wood Johnson asking him to reconsider the diplomatic immunity.
‘He would like Mrs Sacoolas to return so a full and proper investigation can be carried out.’
The letter was sent on October 8 from the Archbishop’s official residence at Lambeth Palace.
They had been due to meet the leader of the Church of England at Lambeth Palace in London on Wednesday
Mr Dunn was killed after his motorbike was in a head on collision with a Volvo car being driven on the wrong side of the road by Mrs Sacoolas.
She had only been in the UK a matter of weeks and is thought to have forgotten to drive on the left hand side of the road and not the right as in the US.
Harry’s grieving parents are taking legal action against Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, accusing him of misusing or abusing his power by granting her diplomatic immunity, after which she left the country.
The Foreign Office has admitted that Mrs Sacoolas no longer has immunity from prosecution having returned home to Maryland.
On Tuesday, Mr Raab appealed to Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK to face justice, the Guardian reported.
After a second meeting with the family, he said: ‘I appeal to Anne Sacoolas herself to do the right thing. If there is a charging decision from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), I urge her to come back to the United Kingdom and cooperate with the criminal justice process.’
In October, Sacoolas met with Northamptonshire police officers who travelled to the US to take further statements.
The Dunns also travelled to the White House where they met President Trump who expressed sympathy for their loss, but refused to force Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK.
Harry’s parents Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles have campaigned for justice for their son after the US spy’s wife flew back to the US, claiming that she was entitled to diplomatic immunity
She was waiting in a side room and prepared to meet the family at the White House, but the Dunn’s rejected the offer saying they had been ambushed by the offer.
Her legal team later issued a statement saying: ‘No loss compares to the death of a child and Anne extends her deepest sympathy to Harry Dunn’s family.’
It added she had ‘fully co-operated with the police’.
‘She spoke with authorities at the scene of the accident and met with the Northampton police at her home the following day. She will continue to co-operate with the investigation,’ the statement continued.
‘Anne would like to meet with Mr Dunn’s parents so that she can express her deepest sympathies and apologies for this tragic accident.
‘We have been in contact with the family’s attorneys and look forward to hearing from them.’
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