British court gives American citizen 8-month suspended sentence for ‘careless driving’

Anne Sacoolas, a US citizen who drove on the wrong side of the road striking and struck and killed a British teenager back in 2019, was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday in a London courtroom. Sacoolas, the wife of a CIA officer, was sentenced in UK court after admitting causing the death of the teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn.

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