Akinwale Arobieke

Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke (15 July 1961 – 26 August 2025) was a British man known for his criminal convictions for harassment. He was convicted of touching and measuring the muscles of young men and asking them to squat his body weight. Commonly known by the nickname Purple Aki, which he deemed racist, he preferred to be known as "Andy". His crimes were originally ruled as sexually motivated and, in 2006, Merseyside Police successfully applied to Liverpool Magistrates' Court for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order. This was lifted in May 2016, and Arobieke was never convicted of a sexual offence. On 12 September 2016, BBC Three published an online documentary about Arobieke called The Man Who Squeezes Muscles: Searching for Purple Aki. Later that year, he made an allegation against the BBC of incitement to racial hatred, complaining to Merseyside Police that the documentary was racist and had demonised him.