London: James Oyebola, a former British heavyweight boxing champion who was shot in the head at a London nightclub this week, died after his life support system was turned off, police said.

The Nigerian-born sportsman’s family and friends had gathered at his bedside to pay their last respects on Friday. He was 46.

Oyebola, a Commonwealth Games medal winner, had been at London’s New Charing Cross Hospital since the close-range attack in the early hours of Monday morning which followed a dispute over smoking.