In the 1980s rumours and bogeyman-like tales swirled the Merseyside streets, with parents telling children to come inside before dark or 'Purple Aki would get them'. The bizarre tales echoed through ...

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, ...

In the 1980s rumours swirled around Merseyside and the northwest about 'Purple Aki' - a bodybuilder with an affinity for young men's muscles. Many assumed he was an urban legend but when the age of ...

"Across Merseyside, there is a name which has been whispered by kids for decades – 'Purple Aki'," reads the blurb. "Part bogeyman; part urban legend – his real name is Akinwale Arobieke. What's his ...

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 ...

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Bodybuilder Purple Aki has been found dead in his home in Liverpool. Akinwale Arobieke, 64, was found dead at his home on Devonshire Road in Toxteth. Merseyside Police said officers were called at ...