{"id":64794,"date":"2025-04-25T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64794"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:59:16","slug":"nigerian-footballer-jailed-for-cyclists-death-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/25\/nigerian-footballer-jailed-for-cyclists-death-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Footballer Jailed for Cyclist\u2019s Death in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UK based Nigerian footballer Lucas Akins has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for causing the death of a cyclist in a tragic road incident in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Akins, who plays for Mansfield Town in League One, pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to causing death by reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that the 38-year-old striker collided with 33-year-old cyclist Adrian Daniel while pulling out of a junction.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel sustained severe head injuries and died 10 days later in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruling brings closure to a case that stunned fans and raised concerns about road safety awareness among public figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; UK based Nigerian footballer Lucas Akins has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for causing the death of a cyclist in a tragic road incident in West Yorkshire. Akins, who plays for Mansfield Town in League One, pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to causing death by reckless driving. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64796,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64794\/revisions\/64796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}