{"id":379605,"date":"2025-08-28T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379605\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:13:22","slug":"akinwale-arobieke-found-dead-in-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379605\/","title":{"rendered":"Akinwale Arobieke found dead in flat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Liverpool bodybuilder has died aged 64<\/p>\n

15:24, 27 Aug 2025Updated 17:15, 27 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"AkinwaleAkinwale Arobieke<\/p>\n

Liverpool bodybuilder Akinwale Arobieke has died aged 64. Mr Arobieke, who was a well-known figure in Merseyside, died at his home on Devonshire Road in Toxteth<\/a> in what are believed to be non-suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n

Merseyside Police<\/a> said officers were called at around 8.30pm on Tuesday, August 26 to reports of a man in his 60s who was found unresponsive at the address near to Princes Park. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

His death is not believed to be suspicious and the coroner for Liverpool and Wirral<\/a> confirmed it had received a file from Merseyside Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Mr Arobieke he was jailed for six years after being convicted of harassing 15 men. He was branded a \u201cmodern-day bogeyman\u201d, but claimed in an interview that he was the victim of a \u201cmodern-day witch hunt\u201d by police <\/a>after he made official complaints against certain officers.<\/p>\n

Three years later, while he was still behind bars, a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) was made, on the application of Merseyside Police, which banned him touching men\u2019s muscles and going to gyms.<\/p>\n

In 2015 he was found to have touched a young man\u2019s muscles while travelling on a train from Manchester to North Wales<\/a>. He was convicted of breaking a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which had banned him from touching, feeling or measuring people\u2019s muscles.<\/p>\n

The following year he had the 10-year ban on touching men\u2019s biceps lifted after appealing against it and representing himself in court.<\/p>\n

In 2022, he was handed a substantial pay-out from police after he sued the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police for malicious prosecution and misfeasance in public office. He claimed two GMP police officers carried out a campaign against him to get him into trouble.<\/p>\n

\"MrMr Arobieke sat down with the ECHO in 2014<\/p>\n

He received the pay-out just weeks before the trial<\/a> was due to take place at Manchester County Court. In his civil claim against GMP, Mr Arobieke alleged that from 2012 he was targeted by two particular officers, who were not publicly named.<\/p>\n

\"AkinwaleAkinwale Arobieke has died aged 64<\/p>\n

A Merseyside Police spokesperson said: \u201cWe can confirm that emergency services were in the Toxteth area following a non-suspicious death last night, Tuesday 26 August.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt around 8.30pm, officers were made aware of a man in his 60s being found unresponsive at an address in Devonshire Road, Princes Park. He was sadly pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man’s death is not suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liverpool bodybuilder has died aged 64 15:24, 27 Aug 2025Updated 17:15, 27 Aug 2025 Akinwale Arobieke Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,30,393,4884,179,274,33363,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-merseyside-police","14":"tag-toxteth","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115104920990865726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}