Secrets in your town
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Liverpool has had it's share of disturbing characters, happenings, and killers. Here are 3 notorious cases. I'll start with the less disturbing (but slightly racist) one - Purple Aki.
Akinwale Arobieke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is called Purple Aki because his first name is Akinwale, and he is (here's the racist bit) "so black, he's purple". He is notorious in Liverpool and other parts of N.W England due to his fascination with boys muscles. He would confront boys, asking them to flex their biceps while he felt them. He's been in and out of prison for various sexual harrasment charges. Unfortunately, because he is such a strange character, and because Scouse humour has a bit of a reputation, he has become a cult figure here. If you search him on youtube there are numerous comedy sketches and songs based on him.
Alder Hey Organ Scandal - Alder Hey organs scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city's best known childrens hospital was found to have retained the organs of over 800 dead children for medical research, without the consent of the parents between 1988 and 1995. It makes for grim reading but you can at least see a scrap of (twisted) reason for them doing it (just to make it clear, I DO NOT agree with it, and found it deplorable, and still do), but the next one is a true "out of no-where" horrific Derry style case.
James Bulger - Murder of James Bulger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1993, James Bulger was 2 years old when he was abducted by Robert Thompson and John Venables - both 10 years of age, and susequently tortured and murdered. It is believed they acted out scenes from the Child's Play 3 (about Chucky, the possessed doll) movie, but this was never confirmed. Thompson & Venables were sentenced to Juvinile detention until adulthood, when they were released on liscence for life, and given new identities and guarenteed annonymity. Numerous reports of their supposed new identities have surfaced online and on facebook. Venables was convicted in 2010 of possesion and distribution of child pornography.
It was a crime that shocked, appauled and outraged not just the city of Liverpool, but the UK as a whole, due the extrme nature of everything - the age of the boys, the acts of torture, the leniency of the punishment (essentially less than 8 years and a new life and identity afterwards).
If you decide to read any of the articles, do so with caution - they are all quite disturbing.
Liverpool has had it's share of disturbing characters, happenings, and killers. Here are 3 notorious cases. I'll start with the less disturbing (but slightly racist) one - Purple Aki.
Akinwale Arobieke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is called Purple Aki because his first name is Akinwale, and he is (here's the racist bit) "so black, he's purple". He is notorious in Liverpool and other parts of N.W England due to his fascination with boys muscles. He would confront boys, asking them to flex their biceps while he felt them. He's been in and out of prison for various sexual harrasment charges. Unfortunately, because he is such a strange character, and because Scouse humour has a bit of a reputation, he has become a cult figure here. If you search him on youtube there are numerous comedy sketches and songs based on him.
Alder Hey Organ Scandal - Alder Hey organs scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city's best known childrens hospital was found to have retained the organs of over 800 dead children for medical research, without the consent of the parents between 1988 and 1995. It makes for grim reading but you can at least see a scrap of (twisted) reason for them doing it (just to make it clear, I DO NOT agree with it, and found it deplorable, and still do), but the next one is a true "out of no-where" horrific Derry style case.
James Bulger - Murder of James Bulger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1993, James Bulger was 2 years old when he was abducted by Robert Thompson and John Venables - both 10 years of age, and susequently tortured and murdered. It is believed they acted out scenes from the Child's Play 3 (about Chucky, the possessed doll) movie, but this was never confirmed. Thompson & Venables were sentenced to Juvinile detention until adulthood, when they were released on liscence for life, and given new identities and guarenteed annonymity. Numerous reports of their supposed new identities have surfaced online and on facebook. Venables was convicted in 2010 of possesion and distribution of child pornography.
It was a crime that shocked, appauled and outraged not just the city of Liverpool, but the UK as a whole, due the extrme nature of everything - the age of the boys, the acts of torture, the leniency of the punishment (essentially less than 8 years and a new life and identity afterwards).
If you decide to read any of the articles, do so with caution - they are all quite disturbing.
What happened to wee James Bulger broke my heart, I remember it well... never have quite gotten over that.
...well, here in donkey-walkin'-ville...little but the heinous or mundane makes the papers...and who's doing who, or what is widely discussed etc....but the strangest thing that keeps getting reported-without any hard evidence, is of our own version of "Nessie" in the City Reservoir...myself?, I think it's just an overfed carp...
