Notorious Liverpool man jailed for touching boy’s muscles
Jun 25 2010 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Echo
A NOTORIOUS Liverpool man with a fetish for feeling teenage boys’ muscles was was labelled a “sexual predator” by a judge as he was jailed yesterday.
Akinwale Arobieke, 48, was locked up for two-and-a-half years after a jury found him guilty of touching the calf and thigh muscles of a 16-year-old boy in Llandudno, north Wales.
The offence, in November last year, was a breach of a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) banning him from touching boys’ muscles, made after a raft of previous offences in Merseyside.
Yesterday the jury found him guilty, by an 11-to-one majority verdict, at the end of a four-day trial at Caernarfon crown court.
He was also banned for an unlimited period from setting foot in Llandudno.
Arobieke claimed the incident never happened and said the boy must have made it up “for fun” after reading internet stories about him, including a Wikipedia page.
He also said he was “vulnerable” to baseless allegations because of the order against him.
Arobieke, who is 6ft 5in, said he would not have acted in such a way because he knew the Llandudno street was covered by many CCTV cameras.
He told the jury: “I stand out.”
But Judge Nic Parry told him: “You are a plausible individual, but the jury has not been fooled by you.”
He said Arobieke had been a “sexual predator” on many occasions.
Judge Parry said for a quarter of a century Arobieke had a history of assault, dishonesty and public order offences.
Karl Scholz, prosecuting, revealed he had more than 40 convictions, including eight for actual bodily harm, seven for assaulting police, six for threatening behaviour and one for a threat to kill.
Urging the judge not to ban him from Llandudno, Brigid Baillie, defending, said he had to tell police whenever he left Liverpool anyway because of the SOPO.
She said he was in care from six months old and once lived in a Barnardos home in Llandudno.
But Judge Parry said Arobieke, of Hornby Road, Walton, had added to the trauma of young men.
He added: “The court has long recognised the need to protect the public from sexual harm caused by you.”
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