LONDON (UK) – Britain has come to an agreement with the United States to remove families of US diplomats and embassy staff from being immune to criminal prosecution. This has come in the wake of the fatal end of 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who was killed in a collision involving the wife of a US diplomat.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a written statement, “The US waiver of immunity from criminal jurisdiction is now expressly extended to the family members of US staff.”
“… Thus ending the anomaly in the previous arrangements and permitting the criminal prosecution of the family members of those staff, should these tragic circumstances ever arise again,” Raab said.
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