St Vincent recalls UN diplomat reported for hitting wife

Sehon and Xandra Marshall

The St Vincent & Grenadines (SVG) government has recalled one of his diplomats attached to the United Nations following a report that police were called to his home in the United States after he punched his wife, also a diplomat, in her mouth.

According to an iWitness News report, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Monday announced that his government recalled Sehon Marshall, 43, a counsellor for the Permanent Mission of St Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations, “for consultations.”

Both he and his wife, Xandra Marshall, 36, the Deputy Consul General in New York, have  been instructed not to report for work until further notice.