Liverpool bodybuilder wins appeal on Birkenhead ban
Dec 5 2009 by Chloe Griffiths
A BODYBUILDING fanatic has won an appeal against an order banning him from Birkenhead.
Akinwale Arobieke, 44, was subjected to a Sexual Offenders’ Prevention Order (SOPO) banning him from touching young men’s muscles.
But within two months Arobieke, of Hornby Road, Walton, but formerly of Devonshire Road, Toxteth, had breached the order and in June was jailed for 18 months.
Liverpool Crown Court heard in the wake of his jail stretch police applied to city magistrates to extend his SOPO. They agreed to vary the conditions of the order, banning him from entering an area in Birkenhead.
Peter Weatherby, representing 6ft 5in Arobieke, said his client appealed the condition on the basis it was out of time.
He said there was a strict six-month time limit for a SOPO to be varied.
Judge Charles James said he formally allowed the appeal against the variation on the SOPO.
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He's back
