‘It was the worst people in office we’ve ever had,’ Tim Dunn told GB News
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Harry Dunn’s father has said he may never trust the Government again after a review laid bare the extent of the Foreign Office’s failings.
Harry, 19, was hit by American driver Anne Sacoolas outside a US Air Force station at RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019 before she fled Britain.
On Thursday, an independent probe by Dame Anne Owers found the Foreign Office failed to treat his case as a crisis and withheld information from his family.
The department, then run by Tory Dominic Raab, told the US Government it should feel “able” to put Sacoolas on the next flight home.
Sacoolas eventually pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving in December 2022.
Reacting to the review, the slain teenager’s father has spoken to GB News.
Tim Dunn said he still could not understand how Sacoolas, left the country and Dominic Raab “didn’t even know until three days later”.
“I can’t understand how such a massive event can happen. And our head of the Foreign Office doesn’t know… It was just crazy to me. It still is now,” he said.
Tim Dunn spoke to GB News’ Ben Leo following the end of Dame Anne Owers’s review
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PICTURED: Harry Dunn’s father Tim alongside his wife Tracey after attending a second funeral for his son at Banbury Crematorium in Oxfordshire
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Mr Dunn continued: “At the time, I was dumbfounded by it, but now I’ve seen the report in black and white. I just can’t see how we could have ever coped in the country at that time. It was the worst people in office we’ve ever had.”
Asked whether how the ordeal had left the family’s trust of authority and of Government, Mr Dunn said: “It’s really hard to to trust it again. We’ve had good, honest meetings with Northamptonshire Police, where they published their review and tried to build some bridges.
“And this week, after seeing Yvette Cooper, who was fantastic, and the meeting was really well conducted and a complete opposite to when we saw Mr Raab.
“Will I ever trust again? Probably not. Even though they’re going to implement all the things that Dame Anne has asked for, sometimes you think to yourself: ‘Are you important enough or is the deal with another country more important?'”
