{"id":8986,"date":"2026-01-03T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:44:31","slug":"anthony-joshua-boxer-flies-back-to-uk-for-funerals-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8986","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua: Boxer flies back to UK for funerals after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has flown back to the UK after a fatal car crash that <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8989e1wnj2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">killed two of his close friends in Nigeria<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">.<\/b><\/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\">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 in the sum of 5,000,000 Naira (\u00a32,578) and was remanded pending his bail conditions being met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The case has been adjourned until 20 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c368p7zld0wo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world heavyweight champ&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}