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The Guardian - UK
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Rob Evans and Harry Davies

David Lammy to ask US about case of woman strangled by American pilot in UK

Sarah Steele, photographed on a Cambridge common
Sarah Steele has spoken out about her ‘distressing and degrading’ experience with the US military justice system after she was assaulted by Jacob Wulfson. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, is raising with the US government the “extremely concerning” case of an American fighter pilot who avoided a trial under English law for strangling a woman at his home in Cambridge.

Lammy, who is also the justice secretary, told parliament that he wanted the US government to give a full account of the case of Sarah Steele, an academic who was assaulted by the pilot.

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