If a British person had committed a crime in the US then returned to the UK - would they be taken back to the US to face trial? UK law is based on precedent.
Anne Sacoolas should most definitely be extradited to the UK to face charges for manslaughter.
There is NO WAY Julian Assange should be part of the deal! Makes me wonder if Boris is getting something in his back pocket!!!
Our beetroot flavoured Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has suddenly spoken up about Julian Assange saying that he should either be tried in the UK (where the alleged crime was committed) or deported to Australia.
It’s about time this government got some balls and stood up for its citizens.
I notice the news reports I’ve seen do NOT say Anne Sacoolas will physically return to the UK! Apparently she will “face the UK justice system”; “Case to go before UK court”.
Having done plenty of trips, back & forth, to the USA, back in the day, I can remember times when, after the longish flight, and the basic stress of doing the trip, I’d find myself making errors in driving on the other side of the road, maybe in an automatic, instead of manual, with all of the completely different road signs, etc., etc.
There should be some sort of 24 hour ban - but there wasn’t!
It might take a day or three to get safely accustomed.
Add to which, the Lady might well have been given all of the wrong advice and rushed out of the country, by her bosses.
A life was lost, one of many?
I wonder how many holidaymakers are flying the Ocean, jumping in a hire car, and driving through New York traffic, towards Disneyland, every week?
How many of them might be looking the wrong way, for a split second, whilst coming onto a main road from a junction?
She had not just arrived .
The woman lived on the camp with her husband .
I have driven overseas on the right side many many times for years and I have not driven on the wrong side of road .
Nevertheless it was an accident and she would not have got much sentence .
But to totally get off is outrageous and a travesty of justice .
Also, the American bases have signs next to the exits reminding drivers that they must keep to the left, so there is no excuse for her to have made a mistake.
I don’t know if the police took her phone or not Tedc, but I don’t think so
Because it says here and in lots of other articles that her phone records show texts and calls for the day before she killed the boy, and for the day after, but nothing at all on the day of the incident, and they are suggesting they may have been deleted
I thought there was a way in which the police could access deleted texts/calls through the mobile 'phone company records … or am I watching too many crime dramas??
Yes Mups, something seems quite off about the whole situation doesn’t it? The fact that she was whisked out of the country within days rather than answering for what she had done is cowardly in my view. I suppose her response to that would be that she stayed with the young man until the ambulance and police arrived and then was sent back to the base.
