The myth of Purple Aki?

Question

This will probably make no sense unless your from liverpool but round here when we were kids ther was a bloke named purple aki (like the boogyman) you know if you go the wrong place purple aki's gonna get you. Recently I just found out this guy is real and although the stories were somewhat exaggerated were based in truth. I just wondered if anyone else had heard such urban myths as purple aki or other things like that in childhood that when you became adults you have found to be real?

Answer 1

I was going to say what the other people said,

Can i have the 10 points anyway, They just said it first.


If you don't ask, you don't get

Answer 2

Akinwale Arobieke, known locally as Purple Aki, is a convicted criminal from the North West of England. He was widely believed to be an urban legend until his imprisonment in Liverpool in 2001. He was well known as a "bogeyman" in the area, with stories of his activity reaching as far as Wigan and Doncaster. Many stories talk of his sexual attacks, but he has never been found guilty of anything of a sexual nature.


[edit] Criminal history
Akinwale Arobieke was born in 1961 and lived on South Hill Road, Toxteth, Liverpool until he was arrested in 2001. He appeared in court on 22 November 2001, pleading not guilty to fifty counts of indecent assault and harassment against fourteen teenage boys between February 1995 and September 2000. He was convicted of threatening behaviour and was jailed for thirty months.[1]The name "Purple Aki" is reputedly from the fact that he was 'so black he was purple'.

Released in 2003, Arobieke resumed his activities and was quickly arrested and charged with fifteen counts of harassment. During the course of the trial 123 people were interviewed by police, including one family who were forced into the Witness Protection Programme as a result of threats from Arobieke. This lead to Arobieke being additionally charged with witness intimidation. On 15 December 2003 he was jailed for six years by Preston Crown Court, pleading guilty to the charges. When sentencing Arobieke, Judge Slinger said: "You are a danger to young men and your behaviour is both strange and obsessive."[2]

He was released on license on 26 October 2006. Unusually, Merseyside police applied to Liverpool Magistrates' Court for a Sexual Offences Prevention Order against Arobieke, although he was never convicted of a sex offence. Under the terms of the order, Arobieke was banned from touching, feeling or measuring muscles, asking people to do squat exercises in public, entering the towns of St Helens, Warrington or Widnes without police permission and loitering near schools, gyms or sports clubs.[3]

Answer 3

Actually it was a very recently that he was caught. 2001, I believe. He was a sex convict. Wait, I just found a link for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Aki