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‘Modern day bogeyman’ Akinwale Arobieke has been released on bail after being convicted of breaking an order banning from touching people’s muscles.

The notorious Liverpool bodybuilder was today found guilty of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) after feeling a student’s muscles on a train travelling from Manchester to North Wales.

He denied the offence and told a jury at Mold Crown Court that he was being set up by British Transport Police because of his notoriety.

Arobieke, 54, of Devonshire Road, Aigburth, who represented himself, also complained that most of the prosecution papers referred to him as “Purple Aki” which he regarded as a highly racist term.

They would not describe a Chinese person as “yellow wong”, he complained.

Mold Crown Court heard that Arobieke was subject to a SOPO which specified that he must not “touch, feel or measure” the muscles or muscle areas of any person in any public place or in any private place where the public had access.

He had previous convictions for breaching the order but had also been cleared on several occasions since 2011 or had no action taken against him.

Arobieke said that while he had been made the subject of the indefinite SOPO by Liverpool magistrates he had never been convicted of a sexual offence.

The court heard how on October 11, 2013, a young student from the Llandudno area travelled from Manchester Piccadilly to Colwyn Bay.

Arobieke was said to have then embarked in conversation with him, asking him if he knew him or if he had seen him in the gym.

Karl Scholz, prosecuting, said the conversation continued when the men boarded the train and throughout the 70 minute journey they spoke about matters involving the gym.

Mr Sholz told jurors: “He asked him to flex his muscles, his bicep and then asked to touch it.”

Arobieke then asked him if he could measure it and produced a tape measure and did so.

The young man, in his early 20s, thought it was a bit strange but thought nothing more of it.

It was then alleged that Arobieke asked the youth if he wanted steroids and produced a document listing steroids, their prices and gave the young man his mobile telephone number.

The young man took the number rather than enter into an argument about whether the use of steroids was appropriate or not.

Akinwale got off the train at Flint and the young man later discovered that his luggage had disappeared.

He contacted British Transport Police (BTP) and did so and also sent a text to Arobieke, telling him what had happened.

The jury was told that there was no suggestion that Arobieke had taken the luggage but later, while at home, the man received a call from him to say that he had found his luggage and was with the police at Flint station.

Police arranged to meet him at Colwyn Bay and initially regarded Arobieke as a “helpful member of the public”.

Arobieke insisted on accompanying the police to Colwyn Bay to meet the student before returning on the train.

About a month later, the complainant read a Liverpool Echo article about a man described as “Purple Aki”, a name often given to the defendant, said Mr Scholz.

The court heard how the student recognised the man he knew as “Andy”.

He then did an internet search and read about him on Wikipedia.

Mr Scholz said: “He was to learn that what the defendant had done to him was something that he had been doing to others in the past and which he was prohibited from doing”

At the time it happened he did not think that the defendant asking to see and touch his muscles had any sexual connotations, Mr Scholz said, but after reading about the defendant began to wonder what the motive was.

Arobieke claimed that the young man had known at the time that he was referred to as “Purple Aki” rather than learning of it later, and claimed that police had “put up” the young man to make a false complaint about him because of his notoriety.

The CCTV did not show him touching or measuring the man’s muscles, he said.

The student claimed in court that Arobieke had also touched his calf muscle.

Arobieke will be sentenced at a later date to be fixed.