UK police slammed for not arresting US diplomat's wife in fatal crash

London: An independent review in Britain criticised police on Wednesday for failing to arrest a US diplomat s wife after she killed a British teenager...

London: An independent review in Britain criticised police on Wednesday for failing to arrest a US diplomat's wife after she killed a British teenager in a car accident before fleeing the country in 2019.

The accident in which Harry Dunn, 19, died became a diplomatic issue between the UK and United States, leading to his family meeting US President Donald Trump at the White House.

Anne Sacoolas, who was driving on the wrong side of the road outside the US military base at RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, claimed in the ensuing days to have diplomatic immunity.

Sacoolas, whose husband was an intelligence official and has herself been reported to have been a CIA operative, left Britain soon after hitting Dunn on his motorbike in the August 2019 accident.

The review, commissioned by Northamptonshire's chief constable, Ivan Balhatchet, said the decision not to arrest her was partly based on "information received that Anne Sacoolas was in shock".