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Aki Omoshaybi, aka Professor Gabriel Folukoya in Silent Witness, was fostered as a baby: ‘I didn’t fit in’

Aki Omoshaybi returns to Silent Witness series 27 as no-nonsense pathologist Gabriel Folukoya, but did you know he was fostered as a baby?

At the time, actor Aki Omoshaybi said about his character: “Gabriel has much less practical experience than Nikki and prefers to computer model an autopsy than to slice a body open. We went on to play Henry Wade in Acorn TV ‘s cosy crime drama Queens of Mystery, which followed the adventures of a detective and her three crime-writer aunts. “When I was 18, my friend in Hampshire Theatre Group suggested I audition for Zigger Zagger, a play about football hooliganism at Southampton’s club ground.

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