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.

Im surprised there wasn't more CCTV footage to track where he went to after the bridge

There definitely would have been

I wish someone would put up a hefty reward for more information, someone knew who this man was surely.

Class As in his house and he’s got a 3 year old who lives there part time? Hope social services get involved.

Good point!

Doubtful- him and half of London!

Anyone who runs/walks/drives across Putney Bridge will know with 100% certainty that the road is constantly packed with buses and cars. There is absolutely no ignoring the danger of pushing a person in the direction of traffic.

Thank goodness for the incredible bus driver's reflexes - the video is shocking to watch. It is also shocking how anyone could have shielded the man's identity for all these years.

Yes, anyone who hasn’t seen the footage, do watch it.
It’s all emptier and more specific than you might imagine. I don’t think a jury would buy that he didn’t know the bus was there.

It’s so sparse. There’s hardly anyone there.

True, good point. And he may not have known whether he had managed to throw her under the bus, so returning to innocently check would fit the psycho behaviour.

Happily, I don’t think that is any excuse under the law, as people who have killed someone with one punch have discovered.

I think crossing the bridge in the opposite direction 15 minutes later is more likely to be the usual return leg of his run home than a deliberate return to the scene of the crime.

Was he on the other side when he re-crossed the bridge? I agree he's likely to have been on his way home as it would be a long way round via another bridge, but he'd also have to cross the busy road (multiple sets of traffic lights) to get to the other side.
But he did push her into the bus lane, so no surprise that there was a bus there.

In my role as Queen of the Passive Aggressors, if that had been me and I was annoyed that someone was in MY WAY I would have pointedly run into them and knocked their shoulder with my shoulder then shouted “sorry” as I actually thought “fkem.”

There is no way I would have reached out with both hands and shoved her so hard like that.

That move was done in anger and entitlement. What a dangerous knob.

I suspect he deleted that run years ago.

Garmin or Strava might still have the records though, I don't know if deleted for the user means deleted altogether.

Actually that's a really good point but maybe it wasn't very good or the cameras were switched off at a critical point.

I don’t get it? Why would you run into someone going about their business? Why not just run around them?

Same. That's not passive aggressive, that's plain old aggression. I can't imagine having so much aggression within me that I would feel the need to run straight into someone rather than simply altering my direction slightly 🤷‍♀️

That sounds just plain aggressive.
And wouldn't you be equally in their way?

Very little ever gets "deleted". Quite aside from what is secured in backups, things can hang around in caches (which themselves can be backed up) for a very long time.

And that is before you look at various distributed platforms where there is no single copy of the truth.

This is the technical reality, not the legal fiction.

I posted about this yesterday - I’m assuming he entered into the privileged postcode area or place of work. If he’s aristocracy that explains why it’s taken A DECADE to trace him in the most surveilled city in Europe. Someone’s come forward and the powers that be know there will be uproar if nothing happens - particularly as his victim was a woman - think Sarah Everard and every other high profile case since Me Too.

The royal family aren’t going to want more scandal attached to them or friends/ relatives and after Andrew the last thing they’ll want to be seen doing is covering up for them.

Hopefully they’ll throw him to the wolves.

Ex army working in the City might also be a spook.....

I was deliberately pushed into by a then popular celebrity in a busy Bond Street in London some years ago. I mentioned it once on a news comments section and got down down arrowed.

Now years later he seems to be thought of as a bit of an obnoxious twat.