DUTCH REFEREE ROB DIEPERINK DIES WEEKS AFTER REMOVAL FROM WORLD CUP OFFICIATING LIST. (PHOTO).
Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies weeks after removal from World Cup officiating list Dutch referee Rob Dieperink has died at the age of 38, weeks after FIFA removed him from its list of officials for the World Cup. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed his death in a statement, saying it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the news. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Dieperink was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following a report of an alleged sexual assault involving a teenage boy in London. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said officers responded on April 9 to a report of sexual assault at an address in Croydon and arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of the offence. Police later said that after reviewing available evidence, including CCTV footage and digital devices, the investigation had concluded that “the evidential threshold had not been met” and no further action would be taken. Following the investigation, FIFA co...
On Saturday night a day before Easter Musician Yinka Ayefele,was involved in a ghastly accident when one of the trucks conveying musical equipment entered a deep pot hole along Lagos Ibadan expressway and swerved off the road into a deep ditch,killing one of the engineering crew aboard while several others sustained various degree of injuries.The deceased 39 year old Mr Tunde Oduneye was confirmed dead at the University College Hospital {UCH},AROUND 11:00pm on sunday.The Merry Makers band ,according to a release signed by the Publicist of the band,Mr David Ajiboye,had been contracted to perform at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Olu Amore,a Commissioner of Police before the truck conveying the equipment back to Ibandan had the accident shortly after the old toll plaza at Ogere.A visibly shocked leader of the band,Yinka Ayefele,was seen being consoled by sympathizers at the Accident and Emergency ward of the UCH where injured members of the crew were being treated.The deceased's body was interred in his home town of Ijebu Igbo on Sunday evening.He is survived by a wife and a two year old baby.Meanwhile,the band also lost musical equipment worth several millions of naira in the fatal crash.Some of the equipment got damaged beyond repair while some that fell in the swampy area of the crash could not be retrieved.More photos below. 


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