Queen’s Chauffeur Suspended
Buckingham Palace
A Buckingham Palace chauffeur, Brian Sirjusingh, is alleged to have accepted 1,000 pounds (or about $1,500 USD) to allow two reporters posing as welathy Middle-Eastern businessmen access to the Queen’s garage and cars.
Mazher Mahmood, of the London-based News of the World, claimed he was allowed to enter the London residence of Queen Elizabeth II without security checks after paying a man identified as a Buckingham chauffeur £1,000 ($1,591).
Footage of the incident filmed undercover showed the chauffeur giving Mahmood, whose face was blurred, a tour of the royal garage and, at one point, allowing him to sit in one of the vehicles.
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“Our investigator is sitting where the queen sits in the royal limo,” Jobson said, referring to the video. “And the fact is, we’ve been told that security has been tightened up, that these things wouldn’t happen again, new rules and regulations were brought in — they simply haven’t worked.”
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Meanwhile, Mahmood’s editor, Robert Jobson, told ITN: “Nobody stopped him, nobody actually challenged him. It actually exposes a serious lapse in security at Buckingham Palace.”
According to CNN, The chauffeur has since been suspended pending an investigation.
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