RIP Purple Aki – Infamous Bodybuilder Banned From Touching Men’s Muscles Found Dead Aged 64

Infamous Liverpool bodybuilder Akinwale Arobieke AKA Purple Aki has been found dead at home aged 64 in what are believed to be ‘non-suspicious circumstances’.

If you hadn’t heard of Purple Aki, you’ve been missing out – he was a 6’5 mountain of man with an ‘unusual interest in muscles, the development of muscles and the potential of young men to improve their physique’. He loved building muscles, touching the muscles of young men without their permission, and measuring their muscles.

He would also force ‘terrified young men’ in gyms to do inverted piggybacks squats; ordering them to squat his bodyweight so he could lean over their backs with his face by their bums and his genitalia on their necks, while squeezing their quad muscles.

His obsession with other men’s muscles was so great that in 2003 he was jailed for six years after being convicted of harassing 15 teenage boys.

Three years later, while still behind bars, police issued Aki with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) that banned him from touching men’s muscles and going to gyms. He did try to overturn the ban in court, but was unsuccessful.

In fact during the case proceedings, details of Purple Aki’s “stalker’s manual” were disclosed; a book he had compiled that was “full of details about victims’ body measurements, contact numbers and families”. That’s not weird, is it?

Aki breached the SOPO several times from 2008 – 2015, most recently when he was found to have touched a young man’s muscles while travelling on a train from Manchester to Wales.

The victim, a 21 year old student, was apparently asked by Aki to flex his biceps, before asking to touch them and then producing a measuring tape to measure them. The classic Purple Aki MO.

At the time the student thought it was kind of weird but really thought nothing of it – it was only later when he read up on Purple Aki on Wikipedia that he realised he’d been molested by a notorious muscle-molester, and decided to report it to the police.

On his part, Purple Aki always claimed to be a victim of a ‘modern-day witch hunt’ by the police, and would also claim it was racially motivated. Perhaps, but it could also have been to do with the fact that he’d been told to stop touching stranger’s muscles about a million times and obviously couldn’t help himself.

It’s worth noting that Manchester Crown Court lifted the SOPO in 2016 and we hadn’t heard a peep out of Purple Aki since, so I guess he may have become a reformed character. Seems a bit weird that he’s got a kind of ‘legend’ status on the internet given he was a sexual predator, but I guess he was your classic British local oddball, in some sense.

Enjoy squeezing young men’s muscles in heaven, Aki.

For the University of East Anglia student who died after a 65kg bar dropped on his head while using a Smith machine, click HERE.