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 imagine proving he was in the US will have been based on more than just someone giving him an alibi, more likely immigration and airline records. So it’s probably not the same person.

Well they originally arrested another banker based on calls they received - but he managed to prove he was in the US at the time of the push.

Apologies, I see he has been arrested but not charged.

Will await developments...

I've honestly never heard of this.

Who's to say this man didn't lie to people he knew at the time, saying he'd been questioned by police even if he wasn't. Or maybe he was questioned at the time and had an invented alibi someone corroborated for him. The kind of person who could push someone like that would be capable of lying his way out of things. You've got to wonder why he returned a short time later.

OMG this is great news. I hope they release his name and picture if it's the right guy. I'd like to compare it to the CCTV.

I remember it being commented on that the fact there could be more than one person whose friends or colleagues immediately suspected he might behave like this was frightening in itself.

Finally.. anyone who knew who he was and didn't go to the police should be ashamed of themselves.

The charge should be attempted murder. She was damn lucky to survive.

TBH - I don't think it's the same person. The first suspect was American but this suspect is said to have served in the British Army.

What? Where do you get the idea that he has been protected by a woman? Is this fact or fantasy?

It's something straight out of American Psycho. There are men to aspire to be like psychopath Patrick Bateman. They see him as an anti-hero.

I said it like that because I was accusing him of FAKING having PTSD. Why are you shocked?

I've explained myself so no need for the outrage.

For some people it's always cherche la femme.

I know. Staggering how people can twist a story of brutal male misogyny to find a fictitious woman to blame.

Why no name and nationality? isn't that mandatory now or is it just for certain perpetrators?

I also think he will evade jail, he'll have a solid defence of something on the line of momentary lapse/fit or something with medical evidence being provided. I really hope he goes down and never get his life back together

Hoping it’s the right guy and that he is punished most severely. It’s horrifying that a violent misogynist could to try to kill to a woman and then causally jog back past the scene to see if she’s dead and make off uncaught. God knows what else men like that get up to in their spare time. What has he been doing before and since? Horrifying.

I honestly think that was just his usual jogging route and he had such a vastly inflated sense of his own place in the world that merely throwing an unknown woman under a bus as a bit of macho, misogynist upper body exercise wouldn't cause him to change his routine.

Although the guy appears to be a psycho, he didn't kill the woman and her physical injuries were described as cuts and bruises. I wouldn't keep that kind of secret for someone, but I bet there are plenty who would, especially if they were enjoying his money. The CCTV appears to show the victim take a step towards him - he may have told someone that something was said to him or that he reacted. We just don't know and may never know.

He didn’t touch the other man before her though.

• 44 years old.
• A director at a private bank.
• A former British Army officer who served on operations overseas.
• Wealthy (described as a multi-millionaire).
• Living in west London.
• Related to European royal families, with reported links to the House of Windsor.

Who can it be?

Yep, it's an escalation of the behaviour of the type of man who will push a woman out of his way with his elbows on a pavement or in the supermarket.

The look of utter bewilderment on some men's faces when I don't automatically move out of their way would be funny if not depressing.

I don't think a jury would buy that. Split second PTSD that steers clear of oncoming men, but veers into a woman and attempts to murder her then, jogs on and back over the same bridge and goes about his day. That's a very convenient story. He'd have to be demonstrating very strange behaviour around that time for it to stand as a likely argument.

I was once on a jury where the defendant on a murder charge had a history of psychotic mental illness and so it was strongly suggested he was psychotic during the attack. But it was premeditated. And everything he did immediately before and after pointed to him being in full charge of his senses. He was convicted.

It would be amazing if they manage to charge and convict the right man. I think of that crime most days, I behave differently on the street and tbh when cycling as I imagine a man like that giving me a shove into traffic. And there’s must be a lot of us who feel the same.

I had to look twice when the crime happened as he looked so like my XH. But then I realised that he looked like my xh did about twenty years previously. I bet there were a lot of people who had suspicions but then they did arrest 3 people for it along the way.

For attempted murder the prosecution would have to prove he intended to kill her. That's a very hard thing to do. Attempted GBH is a much easier charge to prove. Better convicted of a lesser crime than acquitted of all crimes.

Good point, you can imagine someone saying ‘hey that Putney pusher looks just like you’ and him going, ‘you’re not kidding, I’ve just been questioned by the police over it, luckily they agreed it couldn’t have been me.’