Wealthy banker wis arrested in hunt for notorious 'Putney Bridge Pusher'

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Wealthy banker with connections to royalty is arrested in hunt for notorious 'Putney Pusher' | Daily Mail Online

I vividly remember this case which still haunts me and cannot believe it was ten years ago. Finally someone has been arrested who appears to be an ex army wealthy man.

I hope he is charged - so arrogant.

Maybe that's just his Chelsea bachelor pad, not taking into account his country estate, ski lodge in Switzerland, holiday home on the French Riviera, new York loft or luxury yacht.

Wow, took me seconds to find him on X after the nudge above. There most definitely has been some cover up for this guy not to have been found before, if it is him, he’s not been charged yet though. I wonder if the facial recognition software has caught him or whether someone has given information to the police.

How much longer have the police got before they have to charge him or release him?

Also, I am curious about the information in the Mail which made it possible to identify him. Does this mean the police will have done that on purpose, perhaps in the hope more people would know something and that would help them find enough to charge him? (In which case that suggests they might not have enough.) Or am I overthinking and the details were probably leaked?

This is the kind of news that I want to read in the morning. The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine. I hope they grind him right up, the absolute psychopath.

This is why I think people are being a little dramatic begging posters not to talk about finding him or you’ll jeopardise the case. Obviously all the detail of the arrest came from the police. They didn’t give a shit about giving enough information for him to be identified.

as to why they did it, it could just be good PR for arresting a long standing crime, or maybe they saw how impressed where that TVP stood up and arrested Andrew and wanted some of that we aren’t scared of the establishment energy.

For lawyers on this forum-

There was a theory, even the bus driver talked about it, that the man paid off the woman.

Does this oblige the woman "per law" to inform the police? If she does not, is she an accomplice?

Another question - If the man had disclosed it to their partner/friend, and the partner/friend does not disclose it to the police in a reasonable period, are they an accomplice?

I ask in context of someone protecting their loved ones from a crime the loved one committed, till the police charge the protector as an accomplice. The case that comes to mind is Ian Huntley(?).

The Mail obviously know the identity of the person being questioned. The police won't have told them officially, and whoever they got it from could be but isn't necessarily police. The Mail have deliberately published specific enough details for people to be able to work it out because that's what they do in these situations.

Info about questioning time here.

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-held-in-custody

I dont think we know what time he was arrested though do we?

(Not a lawyer, but:)

Carr gave Huntley a false alibi. I think there’s legally a big difference between simply not coming forward, and actively misleading the police.

Maxine Carr was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, of assisting an offender, and conspiring to pervert the course of justice. She was not an accomplice in the murders Huntley committed. That is very different. She very misguidedly gave him an alibi which she knew wasn't true.

No to both- you don’t have to be a lawyer to know that!

That poor woman. To have endured this in the first place and then had years of knowing he was out there, with no punishment for what he did. I hope this development is a positive for her and that the next stage is not too painful for her to relive.

I think we need to keep the focus on him and not drift to how a woman may have kept silent. Lets find out the facts first before we speculate. Hope they have got him - whoever did that is seriously dangerous.

I mean, he shoved her into the path of a huge bus. If that isn't intent to kill, I'm really not sure what is.

A quick google basically tells you who they alleged it to be. If it is him, he is a member of the aristocracy.

If true, we deserve to know if it was a cover up.

Oh, absolutely. Really dangerous. And if the arrestee is the person we think it is, then he's done similar before, also to a woman. If it's him, he really is a wannabe murderer. Makes me wonder what else will come out about him, DV-wise, if it's him.

If he was that violent against a random woman, I hope his wife/GF is safe.

There is a maximum life sentence for attempted GBH so it is possible he will be given the same penalty as an attempted murder conviction but more possibility of securing the conviction as none of the difficulties of proving intent to kill. Quite likely, given the nature of the case, that the judge will seriously consider the maximum. Sounds like a shrewd decision to stop the individual wriggling out of the consequences.

Thank you.

We don’t know what time but if it was at his house I assume it will have been before work so probably 24 hours already. I imagine the crime meets the threshold for holding him for longer so maybe we will hear today that they are either charging him or have applied to hold him for longer.

I'm so glad an arrest has been made. They must have had some pretty reliable info come through to arrest someone this long after. Whether it was the guy whose name is being circulated or not, I just hope they do get the right guy, because what he did was completely and utterly evil. What a total psychopath. That video...never seen anything like it.

Although I know there have been other such instances. What is wrong with our society? I mean, people in the 1950s didn't go round doing these sorts of things, did they? But back then, there weren't violent films and such. I do think that the existence of so much grim material in our culture, including social media, has very much had a darkening effect on society. It must have been lovely back then - no violent films, no porn, no violent video games, no social media, everyone much more innocent.

Prince Philip really did have interesting cousins, didn’t he?

Haha, I thought similar.

’wealthy banker’ by the Daily Mail’s standards probably means ‘is an accountant’.

Interestingly when I searched yesterday for private banker royal family connections cycling hit and run it brought that previous case up and a name. And who he worked for, etc. Now nothing.

Two divorces.

Hilarious if his ex has dobbed him in.

Hell hath no fury…

Interesting marriage pattern. Married 2011, divorced 2014. Married 2022, only 2026 now? One crime in the first and one alleged crime in second time span. I hope both women are okay.