‘You must not touch or feel people’s muscles’ - Judge (From Wirral Globe)

‘You must not touch or feel people’s muscles’ - Judge

11:03am Tuesday 31st October 2006

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A JUDGE has ordered a man from Liverpool not to feel other people's muscles.

Akinwale Arobieke, 45, was also banned from measuring muscles and asking people to do squat exercises in public.

The unusual order was made as Arobieke, who is 6ft 5ins tall and well known in Wirral and across the North West as "Purple Aki", was released from prison on licence. He was jailed in 2003 on 15 counts of harassment and one of witness intimidation after pursuing young people with requests such as asking to feel their muscles.

The victims were all young rugby players, aged 14 to 18 years old, some who he made his strange requests to and others he made sit silently as he measured their chest, thighs and calves.

Police said he took "a bizarre interest in their physical and muscular development" while the parent of one his victims later described him as an "urban myth in the flesh".

Upon his release from jail, Merseyside Police applied to Liverpool Magistrates' Court for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order against Arobieke - despite the fact he has not been convicted of a sex crime.

Last week Deputy District Judge Aled Jones imposed a peculiarly-worded order on Arobieke.

It forbade him to "touch, feel or measure the muscle area of any person, or request any person to carry out squat exercises".

Under the terms of the order Arobieke cannot touch, feel or measure muscles or ask people to do squat exercises in public. Neither can he approach or do paid or voluntary work with any young person under 18.

He is also banned from St Helens, Warrington or Widnes without the permission of either the chief constable of Merseyside or the chief constable of Cheshire.

And he cannot loiter near educational establishments, gyms or sports clubs A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police confirmed an interim order had been granted until November 23 this year.

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