Harry Dunn: is US giving ‘CIA spy’ Anne Sacoolas special protection?

Washington source claims the fugitive American was ‘more senior’ in intelligence community than her diplomatic husband

Charlotte Charles
Harry Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles
(Image credit: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Reports that the woman accused of killing British teenager Harry Dunn is a former senior CIA agent has fuelled theories that the US has offered her special protection.

According to The Mail on Sunday, British ministers are also aware of Anne Sacoolas’s “career in espionage”, although she was not registered as an employee of the spy service when she moved to Britain with her diplomat husband.

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