British ambassador to Mexico sacked after ‘pointing gun at workers’

The British ambassador to Mexico has been faraway from the put up after a video emerged on-line of him apparently pointing an assault rifle at an embassy worker.

The video, shared on X, reveals Jon Benjamin pointing the firearm at an individual whose face has been blurred out.

“In a context of daily killings in Mexico by drug dealers, he dares to joke,” reads a put up accompanying the clip.

On Friday, the Financial Times reported the ambassador had been faraway from his put up after the incident, which reportedly occurred throughout an official journey to the states of Durango and Sinaloa in April.

Both states have a excessive presence of drug cartels.

Mexico has an extended historical past of cartel violence, with round 30,000 murders a 12 months.

“We are aware of this incident and have taken appropriate action,” a spokesman for the UK Foreign Office mentioned.

“Where internal issues do arise, the FCDO has robust HR processes to address them.”

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Mr Benjamin’s LinkedIn web page says his time period as ambassador resulted in May, and a biography posted on the federal government web site for the United Kingdom notes he “was UK Ambassador to Mexico between 2021 and 2024”.

According to the Foreign Office web site, Mr Benjamin “joined the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and previously represented the British government in Chile, Ghana, Turkey, Indonesia, and the United States, during his career”.

Sky News has approached Mr Benjamin for remark.