[Misc] US Diplomat Wife Fatal Car Crash

[vegster]

Today is a reminder of how the US works, they look after themselves. Something for us all to ponder, there is no special relationship. Its a myth...

Amanda Knox, prime suspect in the murder of Meredith Kercher was straight back to the Good Ol USA as fast as she could run when temporarily acquitted. She said then she was never going back to Italy if she was found guilty at a re-trial.

 

[Hastings gull]

Sorry, if she had stayed would she have been treated the same by popular opinion, the media, and the legal system if she was a poor black man who was unemployed? What if it was from a marginalized, minority British community, like a poor Bangladeshi on public assistance or a poor African migrant? Especially one with a prior “record” of a driving infraction?

Would you have been so immediately forgiving, going so far as to accept her supposed defense before even the facts have come out? She hasn’t even made a statement yet and you’re already voicing and then self-accepting excuses she hasn’t even made! Amazing stuff this.

Rich, powerful people do whatever they want in the world. Their fines, sentences, punishments are all jokes. They live in a different world, by a different standard.

Are you asleep out of circumstance? Or is your alarm trying to wake you, but you keep hitting snooze?

I suggest that instead of going off on one about the rich and powerful, you should read again that i I was referring to the driver, and made it quite clear in another post that the issue of her facing justice is another matter. I did not say she should be forgiven, or treated lightly, by the way. Whilst there is merit in what you say about the rich and powerful, it doesn't always work like that. Wasn't there a speeding MP earlier this year, who thought that she was above the law and a certain ex Albion player?

 

[surrey jim]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50870459

A US woman will be charged with the death by dangerous driving of motorcyclist Harry Dunn.

Mr Dunn, 19, died in the road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect, Anne Sacoolas, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.

The move comes after a file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on 1 November.

The CPS said immunity did not apply to dependants of consular officials outside of London.

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[vegster]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50870459

A matter for the lady in questions conscience now. I'm not sure if she could " move on " if at all until having faced trial... also might be a slight problem for hubby if he has another posting abroad, his Mrs might be arrested if they landed in the wrong country.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Got to feel for the Dunn family as Harry’s killing fades into the background with almost no chance of anything being advanced for many months now with the Covid situation, if ever.

 

[Hastings gull]

Got to feel for the Dunn family as Harry’s killing fades into the background with almost no chance of anything being advanced for many months now with the Covid situation, if ever.

Yes, sadly, it will fade away, one suspects.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Yes, sadly, it will fade away, one suspects.

Let’s hope she is sticking to the coronavirus rules back home so when this blows over we still have a chance of getting her back.

 

[vegster]

Popped up in the news again today, sad when you have to go through Interpol to try to get justice seen and done with a country which is supposedly your " Best Friend "...… Looks like no more postings overseas for Mr Sacoolas ?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/11/interpol-red-notice-issued-for-arrest-of-anne-sacoolas