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Amy Coles

Tragic Harry Dunn's twin tells how brother saved his life when they were six

Harry Dunn’s twin Niall has told how his brother saved his life when he had an asthma attack aged six.

But the distraught 19-year-old said he will now never get the chance to pay him back after he was killed on his motorbike in a collision with a car being driven by US spy’s wife Anne Sacoolas.

Niall, the younger twin by two minutes, revealed he was having his asthma attack in bed and Harry woke up their mum Charlotte who dialled 999.

He added: “He saved my life, I owed him one. He was always so good to me, so protective. But I never got to pay him back. I’ve returned to that memory a lot over the last few weeks.

“These are thoughts I haven’t yet been able to process properly. I’m not sure I ever will.”

Sacoolas was believed to be driving on the wrong side of the road when she hit Harry on August 27 outside RAF Croughton in Northants, where her husband worked in US intelligence.

She claimed diplomatic immunity from prosecution and later flew home.

The US government have refused to send her back to the UK, despite the Dunn family appealing directly to ­President Donald Trump .

Niall said: “When we were told Anne Sacoolas had immunity it was a punch in the face.

"It was really difficult hearing that and knowing we had nowhere left to go, nothing left to do.”

He told how it was like the US telling the family: “Tough, she’s not coming back. Go away and cry at home.”

Charlotte, husband Bruce and Harry’s dad Tim are trying to a launch civil case against Sacoolas in a US court.

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