Purple Aki. A modern-day folk-devil, looming (at about 6ft 5”) over Liverpool and its surrounding satellite towns (Manchester included) for the best part of three decades now. When I was a lad, ...

A Birmingham company has launched a controversial range of products based on Liverpool muscle squeezer Purple Aki in time for Black Friday.

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For years many believed he was little more than an urban myth but a television documentary is set to expose the wider world to the bizarre world of Akinwale Arobieke, aka Purple Aki. Did you know with ...

United Kingdom police have confirmed the death of Liverpool bodybuilder Akinwale Arobieke, also known as Purple Aki, at the age of 64. Arobieke was a British man known for his criminal convictions for ...

Police are investigating a complaint from “modern-day bogeyman” Akinwale Arobieke that a documentary about his life was racist. The BBC3 film, The Man Who Squeezes Muscles: The Search for Purple Aki, ...

Across Merseyside, there is a name which has been whispered for decades – "Purple Aki". Benjamin Zand goes in search of the truth behind one of the UK's strangest stories.

Akinwale Arobieke, the infamous Liverpool bodybuilder known locally as 'Purple Aki,' has died at the age of 64. His death, confirmed by Merseyside Police, marks the end of a life steeped in ...

A BOLTON restaurateur has changed the name of a burger after complaints it was racist and offensive. Franco Sotgiu, who owns the Solita chain across Greater Manchester, said he did not mean to upset ...

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