A strange chap called Purple Aki.

I suspect this Purple Aki'll be on Betd@q if he is on any exchange...!!!

as long as its not the 'muscle' between a guy's legs I couldnt see the harm in it.
Some really sensitive folk around

and before anyone says 'I think we've found him'
sure its weird but from the bit I read about him yesterday it sounded pretty harmless

Yeah - sounds harmless............


Criminal history[edit]
On Sunday, 15 June 1986, a 16-year-old from Birkenhead named Gary Kelly[10] was electrocuted at New Brighton railway station, allegedly whilst running away from Arobieke. Arobieke was convicted of manslaughter, but successfully appealed against the conviction[11][12] on the grounds that he had not acted unlawfully by "standing on the platform and looking into trains".[13] In addition, Arobieke was awarded £35,000 compensation due to alleged racial overtones in the prosecution case.[14][3]

He appeared in court on 22 November 2001, pleading not guilty to fifty counts of indecent assault and harassment against fourteen teenage boys between February 1995 and September 2000. He was convicted of threatening behaviour and was jailed for thirty months.[15]

Released in 2003, Arobieke resumed his activities and was quickly arrested and charged with fifteen counts of harassment and sexual assault. During the course of the trial 123 people were interviewed by police, including one family who were forced into the Witness Protection Programme as a result of threats from Arobieke. This led to Arobieke being additionally charged with witness intimidation. On 15 December 2003 he was jailed for six years by Preston Crown Court, pleading guilty to the charges. When sentencing Arobieke, Judge Slinger said: "You are a danger to young men and your behaviour is both strange and obsessive". After the case, Detective Superintendent Mike Dale commented as follows: "Over the years Akinwale Arobieke has been persistent in his pursuit and harassment of a number of young men, instilling fear into them. We are pleased with the sentencing. Most importantly it's to the credit of the witnesses, who despite their fears and apprehensions, have remained steadfast and determined to see justice done and this man prosecuted to stop him from making other people's lives a misery." [16]

In July 2008 Arobieke was unsuccessful in trying to overturn the 'muscle touching ban' at one point 'behaving erratically' just before court.[21] During the court case, details of Arobieke's "stalker’s manual" were disclosed; a book Arobieke had compiled that was "full of details about victims' body measurements, contact numbers and families." It was alleged that Arobieke would "do research into his victim, confronting them with such details as their father's car registration number or sibling's place of education."

During the court case, DC Andrew Rowlings told how "Arobieke became sexually aroused while forcing terrified young men to perform "inverted piggybacks" — ordering them to squat so he could lean over their backs with his face by their buttocks and his genitalia on their necks, while squeezing their quad muscles".[4] During the court case Arobieke made an apology to his victims and admitted that he was "infamous, notorious, everything from a bogeyman to whatever."[22]

like I said, weird but pretty harmless really
I cant get my head around the squeezing of muscles as being assault personally

You wouldn't say that if you met him. Very intimidating character. God knows what that young lad went through, who was electrocuted running away from him.

Well I don't know the ins and outs of this story other than the limited interest I had between two races reading some of it on the website the other day.
Sure there's a case for intimidation, if somebody is a menace to society they get tend to get dealt with in the courts at some point.
My view on this is that the myth is probably greater than the truth, unsubstantiated stories making the bogeyman.
For eg you never see people make street art or creat flags an festivals of Peter sutcliffe. This suggests to me that people have played on the unusual nature almost as a figure of fun more than a degenerate threat.
I believe this is a form of bestiality. The guy placed emphasis on body building and one upmanship. Quite why it became a sexual trigger is for the psychologists, but generally gets explained as the fetishisation of something.
If 'normal' is reproductive sex between a man and woman which gets pleasure reward to encourage it then all other non reproducing activities are 'abnormal', some more extreme than others.
But before people start laughing at the unusual nature of this guy they need to realise something like a quarter of all humans have something fetishised apparently.
You could argue that homosexuality is just a fetisch.
It's where the line is drawn about acceptability that is the issue.
Perhaps it's a numbers game, the more people have such a fetish the harder it is to legislate.
If a guy who wasn't intimidating asked to squeeze your muscles in the street and you weren't threatened and said ok, you'd probably laugh....if he sponked his kex while doing it the law would probably say it's abhorrent.
Truth is the people who tried to explain nature are egotists themselves and coin Greek tragedies to associate with anthropology in a vain attempt to further their own careers.

Give it time and muscle squeezing will probably have its own isle in sainsburys.

Wasn't the 'shake hands' man from boys from the black stuff a real life character on the streets in liverpool?


You didn't hear him get done for assault.

This muscle squeezer extraordinaire is being discussed on tomorrows Victoria Derbyshire programme.I shall be watching with interest.