Update from the echo, he is appealing:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/03/27/man-to-appeal-ban-on-touching-biceps-100252-20679135/Man to appeal ban on touching biceps
Mar 27 2008 Liverpool Echo
Akinwale Arobieke
A PRISONER is to appeal against an order banning him from touching men’s biceps.
Akinwale Arobieke is currently serving a 15-month jail sentence for breaching an interim sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) by feeling a young man’s biceps in a shopping centre in Preston.
The order banned Arobieke, who is notorious across Merseyside, from asking young men if he could measure their muscles and requesting them to squat.
He was jailed in November 2007, but is due to be released on April 24.
In February, a five-day trial was held at Liverpool magistrates court where the SOPO order was made indefinite.
Arobieke, formerly of Cavendish Gardens in Toxteth, has now decided to appeal.
At a hearing at Liverpool crown court yesterday it was revealed Arobieke is bidding to get the order overturned on the grounds that evidence against him was inadmissible.
A hearing, is now expected to be held on June 9.
Arobieke was given the initial SOPO after being released from a six-year prison sentence, imposed in 2003 for 15 counts of harassment and one of intimidating a witness.