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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Foreign Office lost ‘opportunities to influence’ US after Harry Dunn death, review finds

Banner and a memorial area for Harry Dunn.
The British teenager Harry Dunn died in a crash near RAF Croughton, near Brackley, in 2019. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters

Foreign Office failures led to opportunities being missed to achieve justice for the family of Harry Dunn, killed in August 2019 in a motorcycle crash outside a US airbase, an independent review commissioned by the Labour government has found.

Dame Anne Owers, who led the review, said: “Ministers and senior officials were not involved early enough, and this meant that opportunities were lost to influence – rather than respond to – events.

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