Harry Dunn’s mother calls killer’s failure to appear in court ‘despicable’

Charlotte Charles pleased to have kept promise to son, but says US government still has questions to answer

The mother of the British teenager Harry Dunn has said her promise to win him justice has been fulfilled after his killer was sentenced, but said it was despicable" that she had failed to appear in court.

Although Anne Sacoolas, a US citizen who was driving on the wrong side of the road when her car struck the young motorcyclist in 2019, avoided jail, she received an eight-month suspended sentence and was disqualified from driving for 12 months.