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.

Jeremy Freethy comes up as a fisherman from Truro jailed 2011, so I think @GwendolineFairfax8 is making a general point, not referring to anyone connected to this specific case?

Just to be clear that it won't cause problems for this case.

I'm sorry you've had to deal with that in your life.

I'm guessing someone must have recognised him from the recent photo published on the ten years later request for info.

I hope they have the right person and can make it stick. I would have guessed banker, lawyer or stockbroker from the location and from the fuzzy image of the man, and even as a lawyer who lived in Putney many years ago (which is lovely) I can tell you that there are a number of men in those professions in the city who score highly on the psychopath scale. Not whom all would be dangerous to others, but definitely a few and others who have the potential. Especially when you factor cocaine use into it.

I thanked her for making that clear. No need to go over old ground that has been resolved.

That incident struck me as the start of a time of really overt public woman-hating. It was so shocking at the time, but look where we are.

Young lads do the woman-barging thing on the street; boys film the sexual assault of girls; a male wrestler inserts his fingers in his female opponent’s vagina during a match.

All in public.

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I am not ‘outraged’. All I am saying is it shocked me the way you expressed it.
You have explained what you intended to mean. And I thanked you for doing so.

That incident struck me as the start of a time of really overt public woman-hating. It was so shocking at the time, but look where we are.

Young lads do the woman-barging thing on the street; boys film the sexual assault of girls; a male wrestler inserts his fingers in his female opponent’s vagina during a match.

All in public.

The bus driver was interviewed recently and he said the woman never made any attempt to thank him and he's never heard anything from her. Bit ungrateful really.

He didn't kill her only because the bus driver was paying attention and steered away from her, narrowly missing her head by centimetres.

She did not take a step towards him. He veered towards her deliberately and shoved her into oncoming traffic.

Oh well never mind as that's clearly the main thing to take from the whole incident, how a woman was at fault in some way 🤔

Wow.

Come on

He ran back on the other side of the bridge. She may have shouted out to him, but with traffic noise and maybe earbuds in, it is likely her didn't even hear her. And he may have had no idea he shoved her under a bus. She just happened to be about 4 inches closer to him than the man who passed him before her, and a woman light enough for him to shove and not likely to confront him if he did. He shoved her out of the way because his sole interest in that moment was to keep on running where he wanted to run and she was a minor obstacle he was strong enough to shove aside. I bet he never gave that action a second thought as he kept on running.

The entitlement some men have that the world around them should evaporate to make their chosen path obstacle-free, is cause for alarm. Years ago I read about women always moving out of men's way on pavements and vowed to stop doing so. The amount of times men automatically expect me to step into traffic so they don't have to slow down or step aside amazed me when I stopped complying and realised what I had been doing (often wiht a smile or an apology)... It's so common.

Let's wait and see. They've arrested men in the past and then had to release them as they've been completely innocent. Fingers crossed they've got the bastard this time.

I was waiting for the lights to change to cross a street and noticed a man looking at me from the opposite side. AS he got near me he veered ever so slightly into my path and like a tank ploughed into me hurting me in the clavicle, which hurt for several days. I am 5.10 in height and only reached his shoulder. A more petite woman would´ve bounced off him to the floor. Another guy stopped to asked me if ok and gave the guy´s back a filthy look. They walk among us. He did it on purpose.

A split second later for the bus driver swerving, or not having room to swerve, and she would be dead. It’s horrifying footage. I know someone whose daughter was killed instantly after falling into the path of a bus, it is incredible that she survived.

A woman is somehow the villain of the piece. That didn't take long. She clearly had it coming. 🙄

Seriously? We don't know if it was a woman. Man could be gay for all we know and married to a man. Let's blame a woman though hey? If he was/is married to a woman then you have no idea what type of intimidation and abuse he may have subjected her to. A man who can so casually push someone under a bus obviously is not a nice person and capable of anything behind closed doors.

I also had a man plough into me on purpose. I was thankfully not badly injured but I was bruised and had a painful shoulder. I was carrying something very fragile and precious though, which although wrapped was broken.

But she wasn't in his way, she wasn't a minor obstacle in his path, he moved over towards her to shove her, and it was a hard and deliberate shove. It's like those people who push strangers off train platforms into oncoming trains.

He was said to "ignore" her calls on his way back past which suggests he was aware of them.

And he could hardly have failed to hear about it, or see the footage of himself, in the months and years that followed.

Sounds like your average sociopath.

We may get get to see the body cam arrest footage of hes found guilty

I feel Putney got a bad rep from this. Given the guy's route, he was quite obviously a Fulham pusher (going back over the bridge a few minutes later so presumably returning home).

But the lack of alliteration doesn't sell newspapers!

Something very similar happened to me when crossing a road at a pedestrian crossing in a busy city centre. Guy was at least 6ft and I'm 5 ft 5. I spun around in shock and he kept walking but took time to shout obscenities at me for getting in his way.. It really shook me up.

Ok someone's been arrested yes. But there's still a long way to go to know if it's the right person! Arrest means 'reasonable suspicion' but by no means is it cut and dry that it's him. He's not been charged yet, let alone convicted so I think we all need to stop assuming this is definitely the right person, especially given it's been 10 years since this assault. I hope they have caught the guy as it was an awful thing to do but lets not all just jump to conclusions so quickly.