US diplomat's wife has been charged in the UK over the death of British teen Harry Dunn.
The U.K. Home Office is responsible for making extradition requests and the decision may be ultimately up to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has previouslyBritain's foreign minister Dominic Raab welcomed the charging decision."I hope that Anne Sacoolas will now realize the right thing to do is to come back to the U.K. and cooperate with the criminal justice process," he said in a statement.
"A potential penalty of 14 years imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response," she said."We have been in contact with the U.K. authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honor Harry’s memory."A U.S. Department of State spokesperson said the decision to press charges was not a"helpful development.
They added that the U.S. had been clear that Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity at the time of the accident occurred and the U.K.'s foreign minister had"stated the same in Parliament."
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