'Denial of justice': Britain rebukes U.S. for not giving up diplomat's wife


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  • Friday, 24 Jan 2020

FILE PHOTO: Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, parents of British teen Harry Dunn who was killed in a car crash on his motorcycle, allegedly by the wife of an American diplomat, walk out after an interview in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain criticised the United States on Friday for refusing to extradite a U.S. diplomat's wife who was involved in a car crash that killed a British teenager, saying it amounted to a "denial of justice".

British prosecutors have requested the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the crash last August in which 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn was killed while riding his motorbike.

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