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Latest instalment in the ongoing saga of Purps. It's the headline that made me giggle. icLiverpool - Muscle squeezer Aki loses appeal A LIVERPOOL man has failed in his bid to get an order banning him from squeezing young men’s muscles lifted. Akinwale Arobieke is notorious across Merseyside for his "obsession" with groping and measuring boys muscles and seeing young men squat. His behaviour led to police hitting him with a restrictive sexual offenders prevention order (SOPO) the day he was released from a six-year prison sentence for harassment and witness intimidation in 2006. All this week the 20-stone body-building obsessive has been bidding to get the magistrates order quashed – despite allegations he has continued to grope and intimidate men in prison. The 46-year-old, who admitted he was "infamous, notorious, everything from a bogeyman to whatever", claimed the order had been made illegally and was far too punitive. But yesterday Judge William George, sitting with two magistrates, rejected the appeal. Judge George told 6ft 5in Arobieke, who has never been convicted of a sexual offence, the order was valid. It will remain in full until July 21 when he will give his formal judgement. Judge George added he would be "amenable" to relaxing some of the conditions on that day, such as giving asthma sufferer Arobieke permission to travel through areas he is currently banned from, including St Helens, Widnes and Warrington. Judge George said Arobieke’s breach of the SOPO on April 24, 2007, when he squeezed a man’s arm in a Preston shopping centre, revealed his continuing fascination with muscles. He said: "It does show he is out of control. He is out of his own control according to his own evidence." He was jailed for a further 21 months following the breach. Judge George added: "At the end of the day, Akinwale Arobieke, we are not going to allow this appeal." Liverpool Crown Court heard Arobieke, formerly of Cavendish Gardens, Toxteth, kept a "stalker’s manual" packed with personal details about his victims. Kenderik (corr) Horne, prosecuting, said he would become sexually excited as he groped athletic young boys, performed bear hugs and jumped on their backs. But Arobieke insisted he had never got any sexual pleasure from the touching and had only been motivated by his desire to find the world’s next body-building champion. Robert Wynn-Jones, defending, said: "He was achieving infamy in Liverpool and surrounding areas and he was engaging in – in his own words – eccentric behaviour. "His reputation grew as a local bogeyman. Stories about him grew wilder and wilder."