government insisted that Hall’s diplomatic immunity be recognized under international law. tried to get Hall out of the country in mid-May, the Pakistani government blocked him from leaving and reportedly added him to a kind of no-fly list. All the while, the U.S. The controversy has been all over the Pakistani press, however, and there were calls for Hall to be tried in a Pakistani court. When the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad released a short statement the day after the incident expressing “its deep sympathy to the family of the deceased and those injured in a tragic traffic accident involving a U.S. State Department spokespeople have generally refused to discuss it in any detail. The accident happened early last month but received relatively scant attention in the news-saturated American media, and U.S. What a horrible example to set for anyone.Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, said that with relations so tense, such an incident could “fan the flames.” It is shameful, and the US government needs to do the right thing and send her back to the UK to personally apologize to the family and face the legal music. An American woman drives the wrong way down a street in a country where she is a guest, kills a kid and then flees? I really hope Boris Johnson makes a big deal out of this because it is a big deal. Who would advise her to become a liar and go on the lam? She was ' advised' by either a US lawyer or an official to flee after she found out the young man died. This country has definitely lost its way morally-nobody is held accountable for much of anything, and this is a shining example. Those poor parents! Can you imagine if someone did that in America and then fled? Third, this is just plain immoral and wrong on so many levels. Second-she told the cops that she was not going anywhere and then fled the country! So she lied to the police. I find this story both horrifying and disgusting.įirst of all, it is being reported that her husband is not a diplomat, but I don't know for sure. and sentenced to seven to twenty-one years in prison, he was released on February 27, 2002.ĬNN - Georgian diplomat gets prison term for car crash (Dec 1997) government later asked the Georgian government to waive his immunity, which they did and Makharadze was tried and convicted of manslaughter by the U.S. Makharadze was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.15. around midnight, caused an accident that injured four people and killed a Brazilian girl, Jovianne Waltrick, who was sixteen years old. The only remotely comparable case is that of a Georgian Diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze in the US, who on January 3, 1997, while driving in Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Sacoolas Is Not, and Has Never Been, a Diplomat - Craig Murray His role is support to the interception of communications from British citizens Sacoolas works as an NSA technical officer at the communications interceptions post at “RAF Croughton”. Jonathan Sacoolas does not have, and has never had, any entitlement to diplomatic immunity in international law. That list also includes some attaches who do not have diplomatic rank (depending on the type of attache), but there is nobody with diplomatic rank not in the list). (All those with diplomatic rank appear in the diplomatic list, see above link.
He has never been a member of staff of a diplomatic mission.
Jonathan Sacoolas does not hold, and has never held, a diplomatic rank. Visiting Forces | The Crown Prosecution Service
Essentially this will only apply where a member of their visiting force is alleged to have committed an offence against the person (see definition of offence against person set out in the Schedule to the Visiting Forces Act 1952) where the victim has a relevant association with the visiting force. Section 3 of the Act sets out in detail when the service court will have the primary right to exercise jurisdiction to deal with a case involving visiting forces personnel. In particular, in times of peace, the United States Court Martial has no jurisdiction to deal with cases involving civilian employees of United States forces nor can it deal with the dependants of United States forces personnel. Remember that if the service court would not have jurisdiction then the United Kingdom court will deal with the case. The countries which are within the scheme set up by the Act are set out in Section 1 Visiting Forces Act 1952 and in Part ll of Schedule I to the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999.
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