A lawyer acting for Anne Sacoolas, the suspect in the death of 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn, has said her client is willing to undertake community service, make a financial contribution in Dunn’s memory and to meet the parents to help give them some peace. However, the lawyer said in a BBC interview that Sacoolas was not willing to return to the UK, where she is facing charges of death by dangerous driving, an offence that can lead to a jail sentence. Dunn was killed after a car crashed into his motorbike outside the US military base RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Amy Jeffress, Sacoolas’s lawyer, said her client “never denied that this was her fault”. She said: “We understand that community service is a typical sentence for offences like this. In the US these cases are only prosecuted if they rise to the level of reckless driving with a degree of intent, such as drunk driving. “We have offered ever since over a year ago that she would be willing to serve that kind of a sentence and to make a contribution in Harry’s memory, to take other steps to try to bring some peace to the family.” However, the justice secretary, Robert Buckland, dismissed the offer and described the case as a “denial of justice”. Buckland, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said the priority should be to establish liability for the death of Dunn. He said: “Here in England and Wales we like to deal with things in their proper order … As the foreign secretary (Dominic Raab) has said, the current situation is a denial of justice. Rather than talking about the sentence that would be appropriate, let’s actually deal with the question of liability first. “What we are trying to do is to actually go through due process and deal with the issue of criminal liability first.” Sacoolas’s lawyer said she was trying to resolve the case in a manner that would not involve a return to the UK. She added: “One aspect of this that has not been reported is that this kind of an accident, had it occurred in the United States, would not be prosecuted criminally. “In the United States, these cases are only prosecuted where there is evidence of recklessness that rises to the level of close to intent – drunk driving, distracted driving, a hit-and-run situation or excessive speeding. “But there was none of that here.” She said Sacoolas had instinctively driven on the wrong side of the road on the day of the accident. She had only been in the UK for a few weeks, and it was a tragic mistake, she said. “She’s never denied that this was her fault, that she caused this collision by driving on the wrong side of the road,” said Jeffress. She claimed reports Sacoolas had not called for help were untrue, stating she flagged down a motorist who called the ambulance service while she notified police at the military base. She also took a breathalyser test that was negative and later was interviewed at length by the police. The US in January 2020 rejected a Crown Prosecution Service attempt to secure her extradition back to the UK to face charges, a request that had been supported Raab. Sacoolas left the UK days after the crash, asserting diplomatic immunity as a dependant of a diplomat, a claim that was contested by the Dunn family, who effectively claimed the Foreign Office had succumbed to US pressure in allowing her to leave. The family said the UK government had misinterpreted immunity as it applied on the Croughton base. The US courts in February agreed that the Dunn family could bring a civil claim against Sacoolas in America. Charlotte Charles, Harry’s mother, responding to Sacoolas’s offer, said: “My first impression is I made a promise to Harry that justice would be done. There are no circumstances at all that will allow me to break that promise. She needs to come back if she wants to resolve this as she says she does. She needs to face that UK justice. She may well want to do community service but she has to go through the UK justice system, one of the best in the world.” She continued: “The love that you have for a child that you bring into this world is literally unbreakable. That bond never ever gets broken. It’s never severed. The heart is in pieces. Every bone in your body can hurt and it can ache.” She said her determination to secure justice came from that love. Radd Seiger, the family’s lawyer, said: “We should not be trying this case on the BBC. She has been invited to the Crown Prosecution Service to take this case forward. We do not get the chance to go to court and ask let me off.” He said his advice to Sacoolas’s lawyer was to “hop off the airwaves and get back in touch with the CPS”. He added Sacoolas’s lawyer was completely wrong to say that such a case would not be prosecuted in the US, adding the CPS would not have been able to seek extradition otherwise. He said: “In our country if you drive dangerously for 20 seconds down the road and kill somebody that is not something that is tolerated.” Charles said she was going through a traumatic personal time. She said: “I have sought help. Things are catching up with me.” She added: “I would love to be able to throw myself into the grieving process. We are struggling a bit at the moment, but we have amazing support from friends, the media and public.” The Foreign Office said the family were being denied justice, adding that Raab had been in contact with the US secretary of state over the issue.