{"id":20861,"date":"2025-10-09T17:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lucas-akins-mansfield-town-confirm-striker-back-at-club-after-release-from-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:58:40","slug":"lucas-akins-mansfield-town-confirm-striker-back-at-club-after-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lucas-akins-mansfield-town-confirm-striker-back-at-club-after-release-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Akins: Mansfield Town confirm striker back at club after release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Striker Lucas Akins has returned to Mansfield Town following his release from prison, the League One club has confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm24r3lgjr9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">was jailed for 14 months in April<\/a> after pleading guilty to causing the death of a cyclist by careless or inconsiderate driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was struck by a Mercedes G350 being driven by Akins near Huddersfield in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood Akins has been released after serving half his original sentence with the remainder to be served on probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldtown.net\/news\/2025\/october\/09\/club-statement--lucas-akins\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">In a statement,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> the Stags said: &#8220;In line with principles of rehabilitation and reintegration, the club is of the view that Lucas, having served his sentence, should be afforded the opportunity to resume his professional career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club added they will &#8220;continue to offer appropriate support as he returns to the first-team environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3e7g139nkgo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker Lucas Akins has returned to Mansfield Town following his release from prison, the League One club has confirmed. The 36-year-old was jailed for 14 months in April after pleading guilty to causing the death of a cyclist by careless or inconsiderate driving. Adrian Daniel, 33, died 10 days after he was struck by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20863,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861\/revisions\/20863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}