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Harry Dunn’s mother celebrates Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election

Sunday, 08 November 2020 6:53 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 08 November 2020 6:53 PM ]

Charlotte Charles (L) is hopeful that Joe Biden (R) can help secure justice for young Harry

The mother of tragic Northamtonshire teenager, Harry Dunn, has rejoiced at Joe Biden’s success in the US presidential election in the hope that the latter’s victory over Donald Trump might bring about a resolution to the complex legal and diplomatic case surrounding Harry’s killer.

Late last month, Charlotte Charles publicly reached out to Biden by calling on him to help extradite Harry’s killer to the UK if he triumphs at the presidential election.

Harry Dunn’s mum reaches out to US presidential candidate Joe Biden

Harry Dunn

Charles says she has “renewed hope” for justice from Biden, in part because the president-elect has himself lost a child in a road collision.

Talking to Sky News (November 08), Charles said the “Justice for Harry” campaign team had been in touch with the Biden team representatives and that they’d “work even harder to befriend even more of his [Biden’s] team”.

"I hope that because he's got personal experience of having lost two children that he'll [Biden] understand properly the pain and suffering and how it rips your life apart", Charles told Sky News.

Biden’s first wife, Neilia Hunter, and 13-month daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car crash in 1972.

Furthermore, Biden’s oldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015.

Harry, 19, was killed in August 2019 after former US spy, Anne Sacoolas, crashed into his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, which houses a US spy base.

She was driving on the wrong side of the road at the time.

Sacoolas, who is married to a serving US spy formerly based at RAF Croughton, subsequently fled Britain with the help of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which has since been rebranded as the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

Despite being charged with causing death by dangerous driving by the Crown Prosecution Service in December 19, Sacoolas steadfastly refuses to return to the UK to be tried in a British court.

For its part, the US government, and notably outgoing US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, have steadfastly rejected half-hearted extradition requests from the British government.

US continues to display arrogance in Harry Dunn case

The US State Department has all but ruled out extraditing the woman charged with the tragic death of young Harry Dunn.

The prospect of bringing Sacoolas to justice receded even further last week after plans to hold a “virtual” trial collapsed when a local UK prosecutor dismissed the scheme as impractical.