David Lammy to ask US about case of woman strangled by US fighter in UK

Following an investigation, The Guardian reports that the UK's deputy prime minister David Lammy is demanding answers from the US government about an American fighter pilot. The pilot was accused of strangling Sarah Steele, an academic, at his Cambridge home. Rather than face trial under English law, he was tried by court martial on a US military airbase. Lammy told Parliament he wants a full explanation of how the service member avoided the English justice system.

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