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| Harry Dunn crash death: US woman charged | |
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| A US woman will be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of motorcyclist Harry Dunn. | |
| Mr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect, Anne Sacoolas, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity. | |
| The move comes after a file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on 1 November. | |
| The CPS said immunity did not apply to dependants of consular officials outside of London. | |
| Mr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, where her husband Jonathan was an intelligence officer. | |
| 'Greater protection' | |
| Mrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity. | |
| The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said a review into the immunity arrangements at Croughton for US personnel and their families had concluded. | |
| It found that it was an "anomaly" that family members had "greater protection from UK criminal jurisdiction than the officers themselves". | |
| Chief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said it had authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas. | |
| She said the director of public prosecutions had met Mr Dunn's family to explain the decision. | |
| A Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said the force "welcomes the charging decision from the CPS". |