The Foreign Office failed to treat the Harry Dunn case as a crisis and lost “opportunities to influence” the US after diplomatic immunity was asserted on behalf of the suspect, an independent review has concluded.

Former foreign secretary David Lammy officially launched the review into the case in July, with the report’s author Dame Anne Owers highlighting “failings and omissions” in the department when dealing with Harry’s death in August 2019.

It is understood Dame Anne told the Dunn family it was her “strong view” the then foreign secretary Dominic Raab should have been involved “far earlier in the process”, with his private office being copied into a note three days after the crash expressing concern over potentially “unpalatable headlines”.

Harry’s mother Charlotte Charles and fath

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