Josiah Dingle was the son of Dave Dingle and the brother of Tubby, Heather and Hamish Dingle. Zak Dingle mentioned that Josiah had served 10 years imprisonment for stealing a car attached to a caravan. In October 1996, Zak Dingle told his son Butch a ghost story about Josiah, indicating that Josiah had died at some point between May 1995 and October 1996.