In message <
gru3ti517hshsj2ne...@4ax.com>, at 12:46:35 on
Sun, 18 Feb 2024, Peter Johnson <pe...@parksidewood.nospam> remarked:
>On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 09:46:53 +0000, The Todal <
the_...@icloud.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In a sense this is off topic because it relates to an American military
>>officer who killed some Japanese civilians in a road accident. But it
>>illustrates the attitude of America when its employees are prosecuted in
>>foreign courts for negligent driving - compare what happened in the UK
>>with Harry Dunn, killed by American employee Anne Sacoolas.
>>
>>America protects its own.
>
>This has been obvious for many years. I don't know why the police here
>didn't realise
Because they are inadequately trained, and take days or weeks to get
their heads around what they'd call a "complex" case like this.
>that any promise made by Sacoolas not to leave the UK was worthless and
>that she'd be on a plane as soon as she made contact with the US
>Embassy.
She had no need to contact the Embassy, there are people on the base
who deal with this sort of thing. All that was required was for her
employers (although all the evidence is she was on moving-house leave
at the time) to re-post her back to the USA, which was done on a
commercial flight, that absent her being on a terrorist "do not fly"
list, the UK authorities had no power to prevent.
--
Roland Perry