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'Harry - we've done it': Mother of British teenager killed by US citizen responds to sentencing

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Emotional moment Harry Dunn’s mother reacts after Anne Sacoolas sentenced for son’s death

The mother of Harry Dunn spoke with joy at fulfilling a promise to see justice delivered to her sons’s killer.

A judge handed US citizen Anne Sacoolas an eight-month suspended prison sentence at the Old Bailey on Thursday for causing the British 19-year-old’s death by careless driving.

Speaking outside court surrounded by family, Charlotte Charles, mother of Harry, said: “Job done, promise complete. Harry, we’ve done it.”

“Anne Sacoolas now has a criminal record for the rest of her life. We worked tirelessly and relentlessly to make sure she still had to do what you and I would have had to have done.”

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