{"id":350244,"date":"2026-01-03T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350244\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:53:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-boxer-flies-back-to-uk-after-fatal-crash-in-nigeria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350244\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua: Boxer flies back to UK after fatal crash in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has flown back to the UK after a fatal car crash that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8989e1wnj2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed two of his close friends in Nigeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a major expressway near Lagos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua&#8217;s close friends and team members Sina Ghami and Latif &#8220;Latz&#8221; Ayodele died in the crash. Their funerals will take place at a London mosque on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua was taken to hospital and was discharged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Driver Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged at Sagamu Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y2jrdnnqyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police sources told the BBC<\/a> the charges included causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defendant was granted bail of 5m naira (\u00a32,578) and remanded pending his bail conditions being met. The case has been adjourned until 20 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua, who was born in Watford, has family roots in Sagamu &#8211; a town in Ogun state, near the crash site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2012 Olympic champion was on his way to visit relatives for New Year celebrations in the town at the time of the collision, a family member told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The boxer had been spending time in Nigeria after his recent victory over American YouTuber-turned-boxer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy8j2zvxzy1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul on 19 December.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has flown back to the UK after a fatal car crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-350244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}