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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Naomi Clarke

Radio 1Xtra airs posthumous track by ‘hero’ who tried to rescue woman

PA Media

BBC Radio 1Xtra marked the one year anniversary of a man who died after jumping into the River Thames to save a woman by broadcasting his forthcoming posthumous track for the first time.

Folajimi “Jimi” Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, was on his way home from work at a central London restaurant when he and another man, Joaquin Garcia, entered the water at around midnight on April 24 last year.

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