Lawyers for his family claimed that the alleged murderer may have been “distracted by her mobile phone” before the teenager died in a road traffic accident.
Court documents, submitted as part of a claim for damages Annie Sarculas In the United States, the Dunn family’s legal representative charged in detail that the suspect “evaded” her mobile phone usage during the collision.
Mr. Dunn, 19, was killed when a car outside a U.S. military base hit his motorcycle Royal Air Force Crowton August 27, 2019 in Northamptonshire.
Saculas, 43, has the diplomatic immunity claimed by the US government on her behalf and is able to return to her home country 19 days after the crash.
She was accused by CPS of dangerous driving leading to death, but the U.S. State Department rejected an extradition request from the Department of the Interior in January last year.
The Dunn family’s lawyers submitted the latest documents. As part of their opposition to the proposed “protection order”, the US government submitted the “protection order” in an attempt to keep the employment details of Sarculas and her husband confidential.
In the so-called “opposition motion,” Dunn’s family’s lawyers claimed that no phone calls or text messages were found on the suspect’s SIM card on the day of the crash, but call records were found the day before and the day after.
Sarculas and her husband Jonathan As part of a civil lawsuit in the United States, later this month will face testimony proceedings in Virginia. This is likely to be the first time the Dunn family and their son’s alleged murderer are in the same room.
The opposition motion wrote: “The findings so far have increased the possibility that Ms. Sarculas was distracted by the mobile phone… and confirmed that the relevant phone data has been deleted.
“Questions closely related to this point will be raised in the defendant’s testimony.
It continued: “In the course of the discovery process for more than three months, the plaintiff (the Dunn family) conducted a series of investigations on Ms. Sarculas’s mobile phone: whether she was using the mobile phone and what happened to the data on the mobile phone. .
“So far, her answers have been evasive, unresponsive and inconsistent at different times, and emphasized why the plaintiff should not be prevented from further inquiring about this topic.
“In short, Ms. Sarculas’ cell phone was in her car when the accident happened.
“The data on that phone might reveal whether she was using the phone before or when the collision occurred, for example, was talking to someone, reading a text, checking the weather, or using the phone in other ways, so as not to be distracted to realize that she was Driving on the wrong road.
“However, the relevant data in her phone is now lost.”
Commenting on the opposition’s motion, Dunn family spokesman Rad Seger said: “From the moment they learned of Harry’s death, they couldn’t understand the US government’s decision-making process.
“At the time they did not seek to do the right thing for the family, but stupidly decided to put their own interests first, even though all of us warned that it would be counterproductive.
“Now, even after so long, they again choose to put their own interests first, and try to ensure that legal channels of investigation are closed, and to minimize what happened to Harry, to once again arouse people’s attention to themselves.
“They (the U.S. government) seem to have been brought in by Mrs. Sarculas’ lawyer.
“As our lawyers have always made it clear, we don’t want to expose their national security secrets. We just want to get an in-depth understanding of the truth, and this is what we intend to do.”
