Harry Dunn's ashes scattered by family at Northamptonshire teen's favourite holiday destination

Harry Dunn's ashes were scattered by his family at one of his favourite places in the world during a private ceremony yesterday (Wednesday, July 29).

The Northamptonshire teenager's parents and siblings said their 'final goodbye' as they released his ashes at Portland Bill near Weymouth, Dorset.

It is almost 12 months since Harry, 19, died after a crash with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by American Anne Sacoolas, who remains in the United States having claimed diplomatic immunity.

Tim Dunn, Harry's father, said: "Harry was in Weymouth with us this time last year. Little did we know that it was to be his last visit and that he would die in appalling circumstances four weeks later on August 27.

"The trip last year has particular poignancy. On a visit to the beach with my two boys, as I looked out over the beauty before in front of me, I told my two boys that if anything were to ever happen to me this was the place where I would want my ashes scattered.

"Harry responded immediately that that is what he wanted too. Tragically, as we all now know, our worst fears were soon to come true."

Tim said his son loved spending time in Weymouth and was the first place he went when he passed his motorcycle test on his 16th birthday.

The dad and his wife, Tracey, always spend the last week in July on holiday in the seaside town with Harry and his twin brother, Niall.

Sacoolas was in Northamptonshire because her husband, Jonathan, was working at RAF Croughton, used by the US Air Force, for the American government.

Following the crash near Croughton village, she secretly left the country on September 15, having claimed she could not be prosecuted through a legal loophole which meant spouses of US officials were not subject to a waiver of immunity.

Harry's funeral three days later and Tim said: "Rumours were swirling around the community that that is what would happen, it of course being American practice over decades to remove service personnel from the country in these circumstances.

"The air was thick with talk at the funeral amongst mourners that we would be deprived of justice and it affected the service profoundly and the subsequent wake we held in the village pub.

"We were robbed of our right to lay Harry to rest peacefully then and we will never be able to forgive that."

Harry's family started a high-profile, international campaign calling for Sacoolas to return to the UK to face the justice system soon afterwards.

She was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but the US State Department rejected an extradition request the following month.

After nearly a year of campaigning, the family are spending this week together in Weymouth to reflect and celebrate Harry's life.

Tim said: "What we can now do however is to now set him free, he being the free spirited, big hearted larger than life soul that he was, in the place where he most loved being.

"It is of course a desperately sad week for us, but equally, it is an opportunity for the family to celebrate his life and to look back with fondness at all the wonderful times we had with him there."

The diplomatic immunity loophole has been closed, and a road safety review has been ordered for the area around RAF Croughton and other US bases in the UK.

The family has no plans to stop though with Sacoolas still in America and a judicial review due in November looking into the diplomatic immunity claim and the British government's handling of the affair.

Their spokesman, Radd Seiger, said: "The family have now secured two of their three objectives in the campaign and can rightly be proud of themselves.

"Following the closing of the loophole, no one at RAF Croughton will ever be able to inflict such human suffering again.

"The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has instigated a review into road safety in and around US bases in the UK.

"All that remains now is for Anne Sacoolas to come back and face the justice system. That is just what she will do."