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02-27-2014, 05:10 AM
Bodybuilder banned from touching other people’s muscles to sue police after complaints over officers upheld
Akinwale Arobieke 52, from Liverpool, who is banned from touching other people’s muscles, spent almost two years in jail awaiting charges that were either dropped or from which he was acquitted.
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Akinwale Arobieke
Three complaints against GMP officers have been upheld after a bodybuilding enthusiast accused police of a witch hunt.
Akinwale Arobieke 52, from Liverpool, who is banned from touching other people’s muscles, spent almost two years in jail awaiting charges that were either dropped or from which he was acquitted.
He is now planning to sue Merseyside Police and GMP over his treatment.
A GMP Professional Standards investigation stated that Oldham’s divisional commander Chief Supt Catherine Hankinson and Insp James Troisi were given ‘words of advice’ over their handling of a complaint by Mr Arobieke against Temporary Detective Inspector Lewis Hughes.
Mr Arobieke was accused of harassing TDI Hughes. The case collapsed after the detective acted in what the investigation said was an ‘unacceptable and unprofessional’ manner outside court. He has been formally spoken to by senior officers, relating to a court rant in which ‘there was evidence to support misconduct’.
Mr Arobieke became the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) in 2006 amid numerous allegations of touching young men’s muscles. The 6ft 5in body builder said he had been repeatedly arrested and remanded in custody – yet none of the charges had led to convictions.
That includes his arrest at Manchester’s Royal Northern College Of Music in August 2012 where he was attending a body building competition. He was spotted by TDI Hughes.
Mr Arobieke – who has never been convicted of a sexual offence and strenuously denies accosting people at the event – was charged with attending an event without reasonable excuse against the terms of his SOPO. in September 2012. Following six weeks in prison, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case.
Less than a fortnight later, Mr Arobieke and TDI Hughes’ paths crossed again at a body building show in Birmingham. TDI Hughes reported Mr Arobieke to police.
Mr Arobieke made a formal complaint at Oldham police station about TDI Hughes’ conduct.
Insp Troisi did not officially record the complaint. Nor did he inform Mr Arobieke that he had not done so – depriving him of the right to appeal. The GMP report says: “Inspector Troisi asserts that the complaint was never ignored or dismissed as details were fully documented on police systems”.
He told investigators he ‘was concerned regarding the motive behind the complaint’ but it was ‘accepted that Insp Troisi should have officially recorded the complaint regardless of any belief held’. He informed Oldham’s divisional commander, Chief Supt Hankinson, of his actions.
However, she told investigators she could not ‘specifically recall this’. The investigation upheld a complaint against both officers, ruling they had done nothing unlawful but would be given words of advice over handling complaints. That mishandled complaint was to form part of a harassment charge against him.
Mr Arobieke spent the next nine months on remand. He was cleared of all eight charges of breaching his SOPO.
Akinwale Arobieke 52, from Liverpool, who is banned from touching other people’s muscles, spent almost two years in jail awaiting charges that were either dropped or from which he was acquitted.
http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article5395143.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/akinwale_6589226-5395143.jpg
Akinwale Arobieke
Three complaints against GMP officers have been upheld after a bodybuilding enthusiast accused police of a witch hunt.
Akinwale Arobieke 52, from Liverpool, who is banned from touching other people’s muscles, spent almost two years in jail awaiting charges that were either dropped or from which he was acquitted.
He is now planning to sue Merseyside Police and GMP over his treatment.
A GMP Professional Standards investigation stated that Oldham’s divisional commander Chief Supt Catherine Hankinson and Insp James Troisi were given ‘words of advice’ over their handling of a complaint by Mr Arobieke against Temporary Detective Inspector Lewis Hughes.
Mr Arobieke was accused of harassing TDI Hughes. The case collapsed after the detective acted in what the investigation said was an ‘unacceptable and unprofessional’ manner outside court. He has been formally spoken to by senior officers, relating to a court rant in which ‘there was evidence to support misconduct’.
Mr Arobieke became the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) in 2006 amid numerous allegations of touching young men’s muscles. The 6ft 5in body builder said he had been repeatedly arrested and remanded in custody – yet none of the charges had led to convictions.
That includes his arrest at Manchester’s Royal Northern College Of Music in August 2012 where he was attending a body building competition. He was spotted by TDI Hughes.
Mr Arobieke – who has never been convicted of a sexual offence and strenuously denies accosting people at the event – was charged with attending an event without reasonable excuse against the terms of his SOPO. in September 2012. Following six weeks in prison, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case.
Less than a fortnight later, Mr Arobieke and TDI Hughes’ paths crossed again at a body building show in Birmingham. TDI Hughes reported Mr Arobieke to police.
Mr Arobieke made a formal complaint at Oldham police station about TDI Hughes’ conduct.
Insp Troisi did not officially record the complaint. Nor did he inform Mr Arobieke that he had not done so – depriving him of the right to appeal. The GMP report says: “Inspector Troisi asserts that the complaint was never ignored or dismissed as details were fully documented on police systems”.
He told investigators he ‘was concerned regarding the motive behind the complaint’ but it was ‘accepted that Insp Troisi should have officially recorded the complaint regardless of any belief held’. He informed Oldham’s divisional commander, Chief Supt Hankinson, of his actions.
However, she told investigators she could not ‘specifically recall this’. The investigation upheld a complaint against both officers, ruling they had done nothing unlawful but would be given words of advice over handling complaints. That mishandled complaint was to form part of a harassment charge against him.
Mr Arobieke spent the next nine months on remand. He was cleared of all eight charges of breaching his SOPO.