Harry Dunn’s ‘killer’ Anne Sacoolas was a CIA spy who ‘held a higher rank than her husband’
A FUGITIVE accused of killing Harry Dunn in a horror smash was a CIA agent with a more senior role than her spy husband, according to reports.
Anne Sacoolas is charged with causing the 19-year-old's death when she hit him while allegedly on the wrong side of the road outside RAF Croughton.
A special deal was put in place between the UK and the US which gives staff and their families based at RAF Croughton immunity.
Sacoolas is now said to have been more senior than him when she worked for the CIA as a spy - although was not "active" in the UK, reports.
But a security source told the newspaper: "You never really leave the CIA."
The Foreign Office said Sacoolas was "was notified to us as a spouse with no official role" - but senior Whitehall figures have confirmed they knew about her CIA background.
And multiple sources in Washington and London have confirmed her history with the agency - with the US government insisting she was not spying on Britain, the newspaper reports.
DEATH SMASH
Sacoolas slammed into Harry's motorbike outside the RAF base in Northamptonshire on August 27 last year.
She returned to the US on September 15 - but was charged in December with causing Harry's death by dangerous driving.
The mum has apologised over the crash but is refusing to return to the UK to face justice.
And the US State Department said returning Sacoolas would be highly inappropriate.
They have since refused to comment on the latest claims, telling the paper: "The driver was the spouse of an accredited diplomat to the United Kingdom."
'NO ONE ABOVE THE LAW'
Harry's heartbroken mum Charlotte Charles said "things are now beginning to fall into place" over how Sacoolas was able to flee the country in the aftermath of the death smash.
She said: "In our deepest, darkest hour, we could not understand how anybody could just get on a plane after such a catastrophic crash and leave a devastated family behind.
"We have also found it impossible to figure out why the US administration has behaved in the lawless way it has in harbouring Anne Sacoolas. But no one is above the law.
"Whether or not you are a CIA officer, a diplomat or anyone else, the Vienna Convention states that you must abide by and respect the rules and regulations of the host country.
IMMUNITY EXPLAINED
THE 1961 Vienna Convention makes foreign diplomats and their families immune from prosecution in their host country.
Those who hold that status cannot be automatically charged with a crime — but immunity can be waived by the state that has sent them following an appeal from the Foreign Office.
The immunity only usually covers those based in London, but a special deal with the US extended that to RAF Croughton.
"Her leaving, and the US government protecting her and refusing the extradition request, is nothing short of a disgrace and we will not stand for it. Whether she is CIA or not, she must come back and I will not rest until she does."
Sacoolas is currently living in a £2,100-a-month rented four-bedroom detached home on the outskirts of Washington DC with her husband and three kids.
But neighbours have reportedly urged her to return to Britain - with a "concerned citizen" sending an anonymous letter to residents.
EXTRADITION REQUEST
It read: "[Mrs Sacoolas] has been charged by UK authorities and her lawyer has asserted she will not voluntarily return to Great Britain. This is simply put a travesty of justice!"
Sacoolas could now be issued with an Interpol arrest notice or be tried in the UK without being present, the family's lawyer Radd Seiger warned last month.
He said the Foreign Office were looking at a "number of options" after the US refused to extradite Sacoolas from the US back to the UK.
Mr Seiger told BBC Radio 4: "They could try her in her absence, or issue an Interpol red notice so if she steps outside of the US she gets arrested and brought back.
"There are number of lawyers looking at all sorts of things.
"We are going to have to be patient."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month rejected the extradition request - with Boris Johnson admitting the chances of her returning are "very low".
But the PM warned President Trump that failing to extradite her would be a "denial of justice".
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