AN `infamous' criminal known as Purple Aki is appealing against an order banning him from squeezing people's muscles and asking them to do squat thrusts.



Akinwale Arobieke, 46, formerly of Toxteth, Liverpool, kept a `stalker's manual' with details of young men he became fascinated with.

He was jailed for six years in 2003 for 16 counts of harassment. He had been known to the police for years because of what he admits was an `unusual interest in the potential of young men to improve their physique'.



When Arobieke was released from jail Merseyside Police had a sexual offences prevention order taken out against him.



But now Arobieke, who has never been convicted of a sex assault, is bidding to have it quashed through a civil court hearing at Liverpool Crown Court. He believes the order was made illegally and its terms were too punitive.



