The Man Who Touched Muscles

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast by The True Crime Enthusiast

Apr 5, 20261:19:16News & Politics

He was for many years a folk devil, almost an apparition, whispered about in playgrounds and used as a threat by parents, in the North West of England anyway, to make their chldren behave - 'Purple Aki's gonna get you'....

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