The refusal of the United States to extradite a diplomat's wife charged over a car crash that killed a British teenager is a "denial of justice", the United Kingdom's foreign minister said on Friday.
The stern and unusual public rebuke comes in a case which has stirred up debates over the limits of diplomatic immunity.
Anne Sacoolas has admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road on August 19 last year, when her car collided with 19-year-old Harry Dunn's motorbike, near an air force base in Croughton, central England, used by the US military as a communications hub.
"I called the US ambassador earlier to express the government's disappointment about this decision," said UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in a statement emailed to Al Jazeera on Friday.
"We feel this amounts to a denial of justice, and we believe Anne Sacoolas should return to the UK. We are now urgently considering our options. I also explained that the UK would have acted differently if this had been a UK diplomat serving in the US.
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