1/ This was @StateDept’s position in January on #annesacoolas “If the US were to grant the UK’s extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent.” That is a palpable absurdity 2/ Translated: “We never waive diplomatic immunity when our people break local laws and we are frightened that if we do so now we’ll have to do it every time in the future.

FS @DominicRaab put a statement into Parliament on 20.12.19, the day #annesacoolas was charged, saying he had instructed his officials to discuss with the US how best to address the "anomaly" at the Croughton annex that gives dependants greater protection than US staff themselves 2/ Here it is hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-1…

1/ While @USAmbUK Woody Johnson nauseatingly tries to pretend in his posts on twitter that the current relationship between the US and the UK is a harmonious and balanced one, he and his colleagues in Washington are in reality behaving like a bully and an oppressor. 2/ Nowhere is this more apparent than in their approach to the tragic cases of #HarryDunn and #deansprouting where they have failed to do the right things by the family and ensure that those responsible for their deaths are held to account.

1/ The most troubling thing by far to come out of the disclosure from the FCO is a note from civil servants to Tony Baldry, FCO minister in the 1990s relating to CIA officers being stationed at Croughton and arguing that no one there should be above the law, which predicted that 2/ road safety and road crashes were likely and would draw unwelcome public and media attention to the very secret work the US do on base. Tragically, having highlighted that risk, which as we know materialised in #harrydunn's case, no mitigating steps were taken by that govt...

As we head into today's court hearing, #harrydunn's parents' position is: 1/ No one is above the law. 2/ In allowing CIA officers/their dependents to be based at RAF Croughton in the 1990s, the UK Govt at the time agreed with the US Govt at the time that that should be the case. 3/ Notwithstanding that, when Harry died, the UK Govt rolled up and acquiesced to the US Govt who decided to behave like an enemy in recalling #annesacoolas instead of an ally. In doing so, the UK Govt unlawfully abused its power in allowing Mrs S to leave.

1/ At a meeting with @DominicRaab on 27/1 at the FCO following the rejection of the extradition request by Pompeo on 23/1 and before Raab met Pompeo in London on 29/1, #HarryDunn's parents and I asked him what steps the UK were going to take in response to the rejection. 2/ We suggested strong action was now required incl expelling diplomats, imposing sanctions, stopping extraditions to the USA due to lack of reciprocity and closing the US bases. Mr Raab indicated that they were reviewing all their options but shockingly admitted that they were

'Dominic Raab must resign or be sacked': Harry Dunn's parents on their long fight for justice theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m… Incredible feature written for The Guardian by @shattenstone. Unimaginable that this family are being tortured in this way in 21stC Britain, one of the greatest countries in the world. Team Harry will ensure they get much needed closure one day when #annesacoolas is back and all

1/ I’ve had the privilege recently of speaking to senior serving and ex intelligence officers on both sides of the Atlantic. Every one of them is appalled at what’s happened to #HarryDunn’s family and I’m told there isn’t a single person either in CIA HQ in Langley Virginia or... 2/ MI6 in U.K. who agrees with #annesacoolas departing without facing justice. Importantly none could think of a single officer who is or who’s work is so important that would justify that officer being removed after such an incident in the UK. Many are embarrassed and feel that

1/ As the Guardian report today makes clear, the Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab appears to have misled Parliament in his statement to the House of Commons on 21 October 2019. Misleading Parliament is a serious matter. Mr Raab must now be called back to..

theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m… 2/ to the House to explain himself. In particular, the following statements give rise to concern:

- He stated that Anne Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity at the time of crash yet his own officials cast doubt on that claim and it was ambiguous at best.

1/ Following @neilconneryitv's report last night on ITV News and #harrydunn's mum's call for resignations, the UK Govt unsurprisingly now engaged in a last ditched attempt to protect an impossible political position through their chief spinner in the FCO @roxley. 2/ They volunteer, out of the blue, after 9 months, that @DominicRaab was unaware of the crisis before 12 Sept and that @BorisJohnson was only made aware after 15 Sept. If that is true, then they would disclose documents in support. They refuse to do so. We believe it is not true

As Team Harry moves into the next phase of the campaign for #justice4harry just a couple explainers to help set the scene.

1. It is for the police to establish who has diplomatic immunity. Not the Foreign Office. cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance… 2/ Misconduct in Public Office, or Abuse of Power is committed when:
a public officer;
wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself;
to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office holder;

1/ When #HarryDunn was killed by CIA officer #annesacoolas on 27.8.19, officials in FCO were convinced that she did not have diplomatic immunity. They should have made @NorthantsPolice aware. It was for them to establish if her claim to immunity was valid. Instead @BorisJohnson 2/ and his team kept the Police in the dark and decided to allow Mrs Sacoolas to leave the UK. Instead of doing the right thing for Harry's family, scandalously they put their size 12 boots on and stomped on their rights from a dirty great height, hoping that no one would notice

1/ Viewers of @GMB will remember that @BorisJohnson has consistently refused to appear on the show for fear of having to face totally appropriate questioning by @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 who's job it is to hold politicians to account on our behalf. To that end on 11.12.19 2/ reporter @SwainITV went to interview Boris who had previously promised he would appear on the show, when this happened 👇@piersmorgan @susannareid100

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

1/ @NorthantsPolice have this pm issued the attached statement, which has succeeded in only causing enormous distress to #HarryDunn's parents for which the authorities should be thoroughly ashamed.
Following the unprecedented news on Monday that an Interpol Red Notice had been 2/ circulated in respect of CIA Officer #annesacoolas, as we understand it someone at the US State Dept gave a kicking to someone at the British Foreign Office who in turn gave a kicking to @NorthantsPolice. The best that @NorthantsPolice could come up with today was...

1/ Yesterday, @StateDept, in response to the circulation of the Interpol Red Notice, stated that @SecPompeo's refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas was final. That is simply incorrect. What the statement omitted to say is that it may be final for now, but that is far from being an.. 2/ end to the matter. Not even close. One day, a right minded and reasonable President will return to the Oval Office. The extradition request will still be present that day open for consideration. Were it final, the UK Govt not continue to raise #HarryDunn at every oppty as...

A mahoosive 36 hours for the #Justice4harry campaign. Reminder: British authorities conclude #AnneSacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity and circulate a Red Notice. She is a fugitive on the run and would be arrested and extradited to the UK should she set foot outside the USA 2/ Should @realDonaldTrump refuse to extradite her now he will be forever known as a harbourer of fugitives. State Dept say Pompeo's rejection of the extradition request in January was final. As we all know, that is a lie. USA have already recognised that this will be decided..

In Sept 2018, a year b4 #HarryDunn died, the May led govt formulated and presented the Victims Strategy to Parliament after decades of victims of crime feeling like their needs were being ignored by the criminal justice system. It was an excellent piece of work full of promise. “Becoming a victim of crime is a deeply traumatic experience for anyone, often leaving scars – physical or mental – that linger for many years after the event. Such a trauma must never be compounded by an individual’s experience of the criminal justice system.” Theresa May

The Foreign Sec is subject to a statutory duty of candour in the Judicial Review.

"A public authority’s objective must not be to win the litigation at all costs but to assist the court in reaching the correct result and thereby to improve standards in public administration" The idea is to maintain the highest standards in public administration and if @DominicRaab had nothing to hide he would have engaged with us last November and given full disclosure as to how and why his dept let #annesacoolas go when it was not their decision to make, keeping

1/ Back in the early days just after #harrydunn died, the FCO unlawfully decided on its own that #annesacoolas had diplomatic immunity, let her go and tried to hush that up, thereby interfering in a police investigation. They kept the police in the dark for 14 days and only... 2/ told them she had gone the day after she left. 3 months later following an exhausting campaign, @cpsuk and their lawyers decided, having had all the evidence before them of the flimsy and illogical claim for immunity that she did not have it and charged her. That is what...

1/ The actions of the US Govt in failing to waive #annesacoolas' so called diplomatic immunity after #HarryDunn's death and secondly failing to extradite her have shocked and appalled so many of us. It has once again brought the whole issue of diplomatic immunity into disrepute. 2/ Here at Team Harry we receive many supportive messages each day. But I was particularly struck by this one, received from a young A level student studying politics who is so appalled by what has happened that he has decided to do an extended project on the topic

1/ Trump and Pompeo's approach to diplomatic immunity and waiver is totally hypocritical, one sided and untenable. @StateDept issued the attached guidance on immunity to US police and US courts in Aug 2018, exactly 1 yr prior to #HarryDunn's death.

state.gov/wp-content/upl… 2/ It correctly sets out the position under international law under VCDR 1961 but goes on to express that the US will seek a waiver from the sending state effectively in every serious case and that sending states can, and do waive immunity. See page 10 under Waiver.