British Home Secretary Priti Patel has sent a notice requesting the U.S. government to extradite the wife of a diplomat accused of killing a teenage motorcyclist last summer.
Anne Sacoolas, the wife of U.S. diplomat Jonathan Sacoolas, stands accused of crashing a car into 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who died after being launched from his motorcycle by a car driving on the wrong side of the road.
British police say Anne Sacoolas pulled out of Royal Air Force Croughton base in her Volvo XC90 SUV on the evening of Aug. 27, 2019, and hit Dunn in a head-on collision that killed him.
The United Kingdom has called Sacoolas’s husband a “spy,” but the National Security Agency disavowed allegations that Jonathan Sacoolas worked for them. British authorities are demanding she be returned for trial in the death of Dunn after she was charged with his death in December.
“Following the Crown Prosecution Service’s charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United States for Anne Sacoolas on charges of causing death by dangerous driving,” said a spokeswoman with the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Sacoolases flew back to America before charges could be filed in the U.K., prompting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to demand they “come back and will engage properly with the processes of law as they are carried out in this country.”
