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.

I would not be at all surprised.

Ex army and in a finance role that values "Type A personality" (ambition, aggressive, achiever. Arsehole) it's almost certain there's a controlling streak.

Professional sociopaths

I thought it was coming towards him and was behind the woman

No, the runner was going in the same direction as the bus. To be fair, he may not have run past it, if anything it was in the process of driving past him. However, if you deliberately push someone into a traffic lane on a busy bridge like that, you are at the very least being extremely reckless about the possibility of killing or seriously injuring them.

There was a massive lorry in front of the bus. Traffic looked packed. It's not like the bus came out of nowhere and was a surprise.

Edited to add - actually the lorry was in the next lane. The bus was in the bus lane with nothing in front. Don't know if that will make a difference.

The CCTV footage came from a bus in front of the bus!

How evil was he to come back to see the result of his attempted murder of this woman.

I really hope they have the right man and he is convicted.

I'm not sure you can call it a shoulder barge. If you look at the woman's feet, she is properly knocked off them- there's a moment when she's in the air. That takes quite a substantial push. And you can (just) see that he uses his arm to push, not his shoulder.

That poor poor woman. The trauma of that violence when just walking down the street.

I bet she second guesses every man she passes now.

I hope they have the right man. And I bet he gets a suspended sentence.

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times. But I’m not sure he came back to have a look. If he was out on a morning jog, I think it’s possible he was just heading back home. Not defending the psycho bastard but just putting a possible different reason for the return. And even if I’m right, he obviously didn’t give enough of a shit to stop either.

My guess is that this would be prosecuted as attempted GBH. Proving intent to kill is very difficult. Max sentence for attempted GBH is life, although he won't get that. I can't see any basis for a suspended sentence though- more likely 6-7 years.

Good. That would be really good news if he got 7+ years. Nasty pos.

I can’t imagine how they will have enough proof after all these years though. Would the word of an ex-wife etc be enough? I’m assuming not. They haven’t charged him yet so I guess they don’t have solid evidence at this point. If he is guilty, I do feel he has a reasonable chance of wriggling off the hook.

I agree. He ran back on the other side of the road and didn't respond when she called out to him, apparently.

I don't think it was attempted murder or desire to see the aftermath. I think it was 100% selfish entitlement. Subconscious decision making along the lines of: Woman-obstacle is in my path. The path is mine by rights. I am stronger than woman. I am above woman in the social and physical hierarchy. Shove this obstacle out of the way. Continue my jog without a second thought.

Same when hitting the cyclist with his big Harley Davison, if it is the same man. Claimed to be unaware she was there even though he buckled her rear wheel. He is single-focused and self-centred and in a world of his own, where he rules and others are inconsequential.

Yep. To summarise, an entitled, misogynistic arsehole, with a side dollop of sociopathy.

But she wasn't in his way at all. She was right at the edge of the path and he had the whole rest of the path to himself.

No I don’t. But a shoulder barge is the upper limit of what I would ever think was the line to cross. My point is that a shoulder barge is arsy and that shove is criminal.

Yes. Just such dangerous arrogance.

I know. He didn’t do a shoulder barge. But reading back I think my interpretation of a shoulder barge is different ie it’s a brush against the person rather than a football tackle.

If the word of the ex wife backed up all the reported identifications at the time of those who knew him, that strengthens the case, surely. If that is what has happened.

Were there definitely reported IDs at the time? I didn't know that.

Oh you mean his name would have been known to the police at the time but not enough evidence to proceed? I hadn’t thought of that. Though would be easy enough for a defence lawyer to argue that the ex is bitter, if that is where the new info is coming from. I sincerely hope that they convict him/whoever is responsible though!

I switched off Google location services at much inconvenience to myself when I realised it had mapped my location for the previous however many years.

And then I discovered, thanks to an Associated Press investigation, that Android and iPhones store your location data even if you've switched the privacy setting to prevent them from doing so.

That investigation was 2018 and the Putney incident was 2017, so, if he had his phone with him, there’s a chance that his Google/iPhone settings will still have a record even at this distance.

A shoulder barge would be battery - it doesn’t even have to be intentional it could just be reckless; if it was forceful enough to result in a fall with cuts, bruises or broken bones etc it would be ABH.

So no a shoulder barge is not just arsey it may be criminal.

Bumping shoulders inadvertently and apologising immediately is one thing - barging your shoulder into someone with the intent to hurt them, or move them out of the way, or to cause alarm is a completely different matter.