US citizen sentenced for Harry’s death

A US citizen identified as Anne Sacoolas who was responsible for the death of the teenage motorcyclist, Harry Dunn has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment.

Anne Sacoolas, 45, was driving on the wrong side of the road when her car had hit the victim outside a US military base in Northamptonshire in August 2019.
She had previously admitted causing his death by careless driving at a hearing at same court in October.

Sacoolas has also been disqualified from driving for 12 months.

She was originally charged with causing death by dangerous driving, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) accepted her guilty plea to the lesser charge.

The sentencing brings a legal resolution to Mr Dunn’s family after a three-year wait for justice.

In her sentencing remarks to Sacoolas, Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: “There is no doubt that the calm and dignified persistence of these parents and the family of that young man has led, through three years of heartbreak and effort, to your appearance before the court and the opportunity for you to acknowledge your guilt of a crime.”