British heavyweight boxer Dillian Whyte has been reinstated after he had a doping violation charge dropped

The 31 year old is now the mandatory challenger for Deontay Wilder’s World Boxing Council world heavyweight title.

Back in June 2019, Whyte had provided a sample that contained traces of a banned steroid, but UK Anti-Doping has withdrawn the charge as the levels were deemed very low.

Whyte could now fight the winner of Deontay Wilder versus Tyson Fury which is set to take place in February 2020 in the United States.

An out-of-competition urine sample collected by Ukad a month Whyte had fought and defeated Oscar Rivas in July yielded an adverse finding.

Even though he had passed all his tests with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada) and had been allowed to fight.

The WBC then provisionally suspended Whyte but earlier this month Ukad announced it was withdrawing its charge against Whyte

A WBC statement said: “Based on limited but detailed research and information gathering, including the WBC’s consultation with two independent experts, the WBC found that there was no sufficient or conclusive evidence that Whyte intentionally, or even knowingly, ingested a banned substance with the purpose of enhancing his performance in any fashion.

“In light of the WBC’s own finding and of Ukad’s withdrawal of the claim against Mr Whyte, the WBC has closed its internal investigation.

“The WBC is hereby lifting its provisional suspension and confirming its recognition of Mr Whyte as WBC Interim world heavyweight champion.”

He gained an unanimous points win over Poland’s Mariusz Wach on the undercard of Joshua’s revenge win over Andy Ruiz Jr in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

The WBC confirmed that Whyte will fight for a world title for the first time on or about February of 2021.

Juice WRLD, who’s real name is Jarad Higgins, has died after he allegedly took several asorted pills. The 21-year-old was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The rapper’s traggic death occured on Sunday 8 December after suffering a seizure at Chicago Midway International Airport.

Eye witnesses say Juice had taken a number of pills on board the private jet including Percocet and codeine cough syrup.  The FBI also seized 70 pounds of marijuana from suitcases that were on the flight.

Juice is known to have spoken about his use of pills such as Xanax, Percocet and Lean, a cocktail of cough syrup, hard candy and a soft drink also known as purple drank.

On his WRLD On Drugs mixtape in 2018, he made references to ‘Percs’, while on the song Empty, he rapped that he ‘problem solves with Styrofoam’, a reference to Lean.

However, in July he said he was ‘done’ with drinking Lean, tweeting to his girlfriend: ‘Bae I’m sorry I be tweaking, you’ve put up with more than ppl know I know I be scaring you, f*** Codeine I’m done. I love you and im letting it be known publicly that ain’t s*** f***ing up the real love I found. Learn from this everyone. Addiction kills all but you can overcome.’

Juice Wrld rose to prominence in 2018 with his hit song Lucid Dreams, which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

His song All Girls Are The Same, was remixed by Lil Uzi Vert and drew the attention of Interscope Records, who then signed him to a multi-million dollar contract.

The 21-year-old’s cause of death has not yet been revealed, with an autopsy set to take place.

Two men on the flight, Chris Long and Henry Dean, were arrested for possession of handguns, with Long released on $1,500 bail and Dean released without bail.

The MOBO is to return in 2020 after the music awards ceremony took a two year break. The music ceremony will take place at the SSE Arena Wembley on November 12 2020.

MOBO founder Kanya King said it was approprate to stage the awards in Brent because that is where the fight to challenge the status quo to create a level playing field started.

Kanya King added: “2020 will see many positive changes that will impact more and more talented young people – very proud to be back and to help ensure that the younger generation will also dare to dream.”

The landmark ceremony, which celebrates music of black origin from across the globe, has previously see appearances from the likes of Jay-Z, Beyonce and Stormzy.

Tickets are also on sale now, ranging from £25 to £49 and you can buy them here. The last event was held in 2017 and saw victories for Stormzy, J Hus and Dave.

Four men, Winston Trew, Sterling Christie, George Griffiths and Constantine Boucher, who were convicted and jailed for allegedly stealing handbags in the early 70s, have had their convictions quashed.

Known as The Oval Four, the men, who were aged between 19 and 23 at the time were arrested by police at Oval tube station in March 1972 on suspicion of stealing passenger’s handbags.

The men were convicted on the evidence of Detective Sgt Derek Ridgewell and the trial lasted five weeks in which they were found guilty of assaulting police officers and attempted theft in November 1972.

The Court of Appeal overturned the convictions following an appeal and their sentences were reduced to eight months from their original two year sentences.

Mr Trew, one of the men who was jailed due to the unreliability of the detective’s evidence, urged anyone wrongfully convicted by evidence given by Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell to bring forward a challenge.

Mr Trew, Mr Christie, now both 69, and Mr Griffiths, 67, thanked those who helped overturn their convictions. Mr Constantine Boucher was not present in court.

The Judge, Lord Burnett said there was “an accumulating body of evidence that points to the fundamental unreliability of evidence given by DS Ridgewell… and others of this specialist group”.

Mr Griffiths’ solicitor Jenny Wiltshire welcomed the decision, but said it was “deeply concerning that it has taken so long to happen”.

Ridgewell was moved to a department investigating mailbag theft, where he joined up with two criminals splitting the profits of stolen mailbags. In 1982 he died of a heart attack in prison aged 37.

“It is a travesty that these men have waited 47 years for exoneration for crimes that they did not commit. Justice has now finally been done,” said Mr Christie’s lawyer Steven Bird.

The trial continues in the case of Jaden Moodie who was attacked by three men in Leyton, East London.

The 14-year-old boy was stabbed at least nine times by a rival gang on 8 January 2019.

A witness statement read out in court stated that he was at home when he heard a loud crash on Bickley Road.

He saw three people get out of a Mercedes before they began stomping and kicking a person on the ground after which they quickly got back in the car and drove off.

The trial of Mr Majdouline has previously heard Jaden had been riding his moped around the streets near Baker’s Arms in Leyton.

Mr Majdouline, who is allegedly linked to the “Mali Boys” gang had been in a stolen Mercedes which was driven at Jaden, causing him to be “catapulted” over the bonnet.

The defendant and two others, all armed with knives, then got out of the car and began stabbing Jaden repeatedly, jurors heard.

The attack “violent and frenzied” attack lasted 14 seconds, the court has been told.

A witness told the court Jaden was “quivering” and that “thick trails of blood” were coming from the car the teenager lay underneath.

Another witness said that he could hear the teenager “grunting” and that he noticed several slit marks at the back of Jaden’s jacket.

He administered CPR, but the 14-year-old was pronounced dead at 19:09 GMT.

Ayoub Majdouline, 19, of Wembley in north London, denies murder and possession of a knife.

The trial continues.