Purple Aki

[quoonbeatz]

Gone but not forgotten. He touched so many.

[ollieclarets8]

Rest in beef.

[HahaYeah]

All the more reason to take the knee.

[Bigbopper]

None of it was his fault

[Funkydrummer]

Gone but not forgotten. He touched so many.

Could look it up, but thought I'd ask on here.

Who is he/her/it/them ?

[ChrisG]

Could look it up, but thought I'd ask on here.

Who is he/her/it/them ?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... d-32361203

[ChrisG]

Gone but not forgotten. He touched so many.

Some proper characters in town over the years.

Is the man with the ghetto blaster who rides the bike still knocking about?

[Clovius Boofus]

I wouldn't call him a character.

Criminal history - Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Aki

[Row x]

Gone but not forgotten. He touched so many.

Touched too many

[ChrisG]

I wouldn't call him a character.

Criminal history - Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Aki

Perhaps character in the sense of the likes of Noonan climbing the wheel as opposed to "he's a decent lad".

Infamous character is maybe more accurate.

[Walton]

I once saw him in Leeds train station and I've never been as starstruck in my life.

[CoolClaret]

Classy touch

[IPAclaret]

So this is a thread about a weirdo bodybuilder, who some describe as a character, who has served time for touching the muscles of other bodybuilders, and has unfortunately been found deceased. Reight then.

[UpTheClaretsFCBK]

So this is a thread about a weirdo bodybuilder, who some describe as a character, who has served time for touching the muscles of other bodybuilders, and has unfortunately been found deceased. Reight then.

Slightly more sinister than that. He escaped a man slaughter charge in 1986 when a bloke he was chasing was killed by an electric fence at a train station.

He basically got away with it because unprofessional behaviour by the police.

[Dark Cloud]

Some proper characters in town over the years.

Is the man with the ghetto blaster who rides the bike still knocking about?

Yes.

[Row x]

I once saw him in Leeds train station and I've never been as starstruck in my life.

Was he with Jimmy?

[gawthorpe_view]

Some proper characters in town over the years.

Is the man with the ghetto blaster who rides the bike still knocking about?

Yes, he lives in a flat on Yorkshire Street, he was outside his home entertaining the passing crowds before the Sunderland game.
Reggae Reggae!

[Foshiznik]

I genuinely thought he’d died 5 or so years ago. Wasn’t he put in hospital after either getting beaten or tased by the rozzers about 10 years ago? Think he may have won a lawsuit over the incident IIRC

[quoonbeatz]

Admittedly my first reaction was “again?!”

[Swizzlestick]

I genuinely thought he’d died 5 or so years ago. Wasn’t he put in hospital after either getting beaten or tased by the rozzers about 10 years ago? Think he may have won a lawsuit over the incident IIRC

There's been many fake death stories related to the big man, but I think it's finally come to fruition. Yeah, he's sued the police a few times and received pretty substantial damages at a result. I don't think he was attacked by them, but it was more in how he was targetted and treated, including the racial undertones used. His Wikipedia is worth a read.