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Politico | Joe Biden and Boris Johnson ‘working together’ on case of US diplomat’s wife accused of killing British teenager
- Harry Dunn, 19, was killed after Anne Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road in August 2019 and hit him with her car
- In January 2020, under former President Donald Trump, the US rejected the UK’s calls to extradite Sacoolas to face the charges of causing death by dangerous driving
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This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ben Leonard on politico.com on June 11, 2021.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is “working together” with President Joe Biden on the case of the wife of a US intelligence officer who was been charged with killing a teenage motorcyclist in the UK, Johnson told the BBC.
Anne Sacoolas left the UK after the crash, claiming diplomatic immunity. Biden is “actively engaged” in the case, Johnson told the BBC, but the prime minister tempered expectations.
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“He has his own personal reasons for feeling very deeply about the issue,” Johnson said of the president in his interview with the BBC. “He was extremely sympathetic, but this is not something that either government can control very easily because there are legal processes that are still going on.”
Biden’s first wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in 1972, a personal tragedy that the president has spoken often about in his political life.
Johnson told the BBC that “there are limits to what the executive can do with the legal, with the judiciary and the legal system.”
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