Amazon dumps driver who drove off with boy's birthday PS5

Amazon says it will no longer work with a courier who drove off with at least one of the company’s many missing PlayStation 5 consoles.

The unnamed driver was captured on CCTV by Oxfordshire mum Jenni Walker, who had bought a PS5 as a birthday gift for her son.

Speaking to Eurogamer this afternoon, Walker said her son – who turned 16 the day PS5 launched in the UK – had not wanted the driver to get into any trouble.

But CCTV footage, shared on social media by Walker’s husband Richard, appears to show the driver handling a large PS5-shaped box at the back of his van. After delivering other packages, the driver then puts the big box back and drives away.

“We have very high standards for our delivery service providers and how they serve customers,” Amazon said today in a statement to Walker’s local paper, Oxford Mail, which also picked up the story. “The delivery associate will no longer be delivering on behalf of Amazon.”