British police officers will reportedly interview the wife of a U.S. diplomat who was allegedly involved in a car crash that killed a teen in August.
The teen, Harry Dunn, was killed after the collision involving a car driven by Anne Sacoolas near a Northamptonshire air base used by the U.S. military, according to Reuters, which added that she left the U.K shortly thereafter.
{mosads}“The suspect has cooperated fully with the police and with the authorities,” Nick Adderley, chief constable of Northamptonshire Police, told reporters, according to the news service. “She has also requested to be interviewed by British police officers, under caution, in the United States.”
Adderley added that officers would travel to the U.S. to interview Sacoolas as soon as visas were secured.
Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, have lobbied extensively for her to be returned to the U.K. to face an investigation.
Earlier this month, they said that during a visit to the White House, officials attempted to persuade them to meet with Sacoolas, who, unbeknownst to them, was in the next room.
National security adviser Robert O’Brien “heaped grief and pain on the family by making them go through this but not allowing them to get the closure they need by talking to Mrs. Sacoolas before they can go onto the grieving stage,” their lawyer, Mark Stephens, added.
Dunn and Charles said they would only be willing to meet with Sacoolas in the U.K.
“[W]e’ve been saying from the start we want to meet Mrs Sacoolas but we want to do it in the UK so the police can interview her. We didn’t want to be sort of railroaded, not into a circus as such, but a meeting we weren’t prepared for,” Tim Dunn said earlier this month.