Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu (19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out to the press later in his career, to become the first and one of only two English professional footballers to be openly homosexual He was also the first black footballer to command a £1million transfer fee, with his transfer from Norwich City to Nottingham Forest in 1981, but had little success as a player afterwards, although he continued to play at senior level until 1994.

After moving to the United States, in 1998 he was questioned by police when a seventeen-year-old boy accused him of sexual assault, for which he was charged,and an arrest warrant for him was issued in Howard County, Maryland on April 3, 1998, but he had already left his flat. According to his suicide note, fearing he would not get a fair trial because of his homosexuality,he fled to England where he killed himself in London in May of that year. His suicide note stated that the sex was consensual.
In March 1998, a seventeen-year-old claimed to police that he had been sexually assaulted by Fashanu after a night of drinking. The age of consent in Maryland is 16, but homosexual acts were illegal in Maryland at the time, and the youth stated the act was not consensual but being performed as he awoke.
Fashanu was the son of a Nigerian barrister living in the UK and a Guyanese nurse called Pearl.

SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fashanu

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An elder brother of our own John Fashanu who played in the premiership in England and is a UN Ambassador in Nigeria.