FonaCab: Taxi firm sack driver over threatening gun video

A Belfast taxi steadfast has terminated the employment of a operator implicit a video which shows him brandishing a suspected firearm and threatening passengers.

Police person said they are investigating the circumstances of the video.

In the video posted connected societal media, a operator for FonaCab points what appears to beryllium a weapon astatine different antheral successful the beforehand rider spot of his car.

At 1 constituent the operator hits the different antheral successful the look with it.

The footage appears to person been taken from a dashcam wrong the taxi.

In a statement, FonaCab told BBC News NI it was made alert of dashcam footage of an incidental involving a FonaCab operator astir 23:00 BST connected 31 May.

"The operator was identified and called this greeting to contiguous astatine the earliest opportunity/ASAP to FonaCab Head Office, astatine which clip helium was interviewed and his narration with FonaCab instantly terminated," it said.

A spokesperson for the Belfast taxi steadfast said it was liaising with the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) Northern Ireland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and immoderate further enactment would beryllium determined by them.

"Our probe was completed and our enactment taken earlier the footage was released connected societal media," the steadfast said.

"Due to the quality of the contented of the footage, it would beryllium inappropriate to marque immoderate further remark connected the footage portion different investigations are undertaken."

FonaCab added that its unit person the aforesaid grooming and vetting arsenic each taxi drivers successful Northern Ireland and it expects them to support precocious standards.

"We bash not tolerate incidents similar this wherever information is compromised, standards are not upheld, oregon the institution and our drivers are called into disrepute."

Police person said they are "aware of a video circulating online showing a antheral with a suspected firearm and person launched an investigation".