Alleged manslaughter On 15 June 1986, a 16-year-old from
Birkenhead named Gary Kelly died from electrocution at
New Brighton railway station. He was allegedly running away from Arobieke, who the boy's family claimed had been harassing him for some time prior to the incident. on the grounds that he had not acted unlawfully by "standing on the platform and looking into trains". In addition, Arobieke was awarded an estimated £35,000 compensation due to alleged racial overtones in the prosecution case.
Indecent assault and witness intimidation Arobieke appeared in court on 22 November 2001, pleading not guilty to 50 counts of
indecent assault and
harassment against 14 teenage boys between February 1995 and September 2000. He was convicted of
threatening behaviour and jailed for 30 months. Released in 2003, Arobieke resumed his activities and was quickly arrested and charged.
Muscle touch ban Arobieke was released on licence from prison on 26 October 2006. Unusually, Merseyside Police applied to
Liverpool Magistrates' Court for an interim Sexual Offences Prevention Order against him, although he was never convicted of a sex offence. Under the terms of the order, he was banned from touching, feeling, or measuring anyone's muscles; asking people to do
squats in public; entering the towns of
St Helens,
Warrington, or
Widnes without police permission; and
loitering near schools, gyms, or sports clubs. but remained in force after a successful appeal by police. On 25 May 2007, Arobieke approached a man in a shopping centre in
Preston and commented upon the size of his biceps before "touching them without permission". He was arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order, and later convicted and jailed for a further 15 months, with the muscle touching ban being made permanent. In July 2008, Arobieke was unsuccessful in trying to overturn the "muscle touching ban", at one point "behaving erratically" just before appearing in court. During the case proceedings, details of Arobieke's "
stalker's manual" were disclosed; this was a book Arobieke had compiled that was "full of details about victims' body measurements, contact numbers and families". It was alleged that he would "do research into his victim, confronting them with such details as their father's
car registration number or sibling's place of education". In addition, DC Andrew Rowlings claimed that Arobieke "became sexually aroused while forcing terrified young men to perform 'inverted piggybacks' – ordering them to squat so he could lean over their backs with his face by their buttocks and his genitalia on their necks, while squeezing their quad muscles". During the court case, Arobieke made an apology to his victims and admitted that he was "infamous, notorious, everything from a
bogeyman to whatever".
Breaches of SOPO In late 2008, Arobieke approached a 17-year-old in
Birkenhead and asked to feel his biceps. By doing so, he was in breach of the
Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which specifically prohibited him from approaching young men and touching their muscles. He was arrested and convicted for this breach of the SOPO, receiving a sentence of 18 months. In April 2010, Arobieke appeared in court in the Welsh town of
Mold, having been charged with further offences. On 24 June 2010, after a jury found him guilty of touching the calf and quadriceps muscles of a 16-year-old boy in Llandudno, the judge said that Arobieke was a "sexual predator" and jailed him for two and a half years. The offence was a breach of his Sexual Offences Prevention Order. Arobieke, who defended himself in court, insisted he was the victim of malicious false allegations to the police: "They receive several calls a day saying I am in locations across the country even when I am in prison." The same month, Arobieke was released from prison after serving two years of his sentence. He was arrested in August after attending a bodybuilding competition at the
Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester, an event he was prohibited from attending under the conditions of his bail. In August 2013, Arobieke was put on trial at
Manchester Crown Court after being accused of targeting young men in
St Peter's Square in Manchester, as well as in
Trafford and
Bolton, and was cleared of all charges. In February 2014, a
Greater Manchester Police Professional Standards investigation found evidence to support
police misconduct against Arobieke. This related to interactions with an off-duty police officer at
bodybuilding events in the second half of 2012 (one of which led to arrest) and an October 2013 trial during which Arobieke was found not guilty of breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order. Arobieke claimed to have spent almost two years in prison awaiting charges that were either dropped or of which he was acquitted. In May 2016, Manchester Crown Court lifted the Prevention Order. In rendering his decision, Judge Richard Mansell indicated that while breaching the order was a "serious matter", the order's restrictions could "no longer be justified" as "none of the recent complainants had formed the slightest impression that Arobieke had derived sexual gratification from their muscles" and, unlike earlier incidents, the victims "hadn't suffered physical or psychological harm". == Racial discrimination ==