Putney Pusher suspect found dead, according to reports

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Goodness me, wasn't expecting that.

Agree. People saying “oh I wonder if he had PTSD” really angers me. Many servicemen/women suffer PTSD, they don’t go around trying to murder women.

If you have PTSD you get help for it. There’s no excuse.

I’ve followed this from the beginning. I just see an entitled aristocrat who went to Sandhurst. I call BS at the potential PSTD, he was hardly an Infantry squaddie with a troubled childhood from Middlesbrough.

I think he was a shit husband, entitled, arrogant, a coke head and an intolerant and angry misogynist. A nepo baby with a great, but undeserved, career in banking.

And he got caught out. He would have carried on living his selfish, unbothered life if he hadn’t been caught, without any remorse.

When this raised its head again recently, I was pretty sure they had the right man this time. I have zero sympathy for him. You reap what you sow.

I hope his ex wife and the woman he shoved into the path of a bus (rumour has it he paid her off) live happy and peaceful lives.

One less twat in this world is always a bonus.

Oedipus complex?

I hadn't heard he paid her off??

He was released under investigation. They hadn't charged or NFA'd him.

Got no sympathy for him. A coward who didn’t want to face his actions and the probable downfall of his career and lifestyle.

I think you are very unreasonable and thoughtless calling someone who has taken their own life a coward.
I imagine you have seen numerous threads on here concerning suicide and the devastation it leaves behind .
Someone close to me lost someone very young and precious this way do you consider them to be a coward?
If this man was the pusher then he clearly was a despicable man but there are some posters on here who seem to be relishing the fact that he is now dead.

I think it is interesting people have mooted PTSD. Because from my experience, as many veterans as there are out there with this terrible disorder, there are also people who join the army and other services for the opportunity to be aggressive and potentially harmful to other people (thinking of police and prison officers for example). And no, I dont think all people in those roles are like that. But there is a significant percentage who are attracted in because they are naturally sadistic.

It's before he was arrested, so they wouldn't have known. I thought the interview read as a way for HSBC to plug their flexible working parent policies. Happens sometimes in that sort of trade rag.

No one is making excuses for him, that's ridiculous and you'd have to be hard pushed to find anything that could excuse such behaviour (if indeed it was him) It was beyond abhorrent and totally outwith the understanding of most people. So alien is it that people will quite naturally try and make some sense of what has happened and why. Whether mentally ill due to PTSD, drugs, a combination of both or born a psychopathic nutcase either way the man was clearly a very disturbed individual. However he is now dead, not even cold and in sad circumstances.When a child is left fatherless, It's not really the time for gloating or sticking the boot in further.

It’s not the degree. It’s the military background. I worked in banking and met quite a few former military people. They generally make good project managers/organisers and dependent on background can do technical roles. Given his family backround not surprising he found a home in a private bank though.

We don't that know he was disturbed at all.

It's frustrating that the mental health defence is pre-emptively rolled out for white, rich, successful men.

@nomas ansolutely this, it’s just so predictable and truly insulting to people who have mental health conditions but manage not to shove people under buses.

@TerfOnATrain I couldn't agree more. Trash took itself out. World's a better place without this one.

I hope his ex wife and the woman he shoved into the path of a bus (rumour has it he paid her off) live happy and peaceful lives.

How could he have paid her off? He would have to admit it was him! That rumour doesn't make sense

If it wasn't him, tragic.

If it was him, oh well.

It wasn't a narrow path, it was a pavement with plenty of space for the cyclist and pedestrian to pass each other.
The manslaughter conviction was overturned because the prosecution hadn't adequately establish a 'base offence' during the trial.
The footage shows clearly that the cyclist ended up on the road as a result of the confrontation.
There should've been a retrial, but it was denied.

Watching the video again, there's no way the pusher didn't realise a bus was coming up behind him and he certainly deliberately pushed the victim into the road. If it hadn't been for the alertness of the bus driver, the victim's head would have been crushed under the front bus wheel! Horrific!

He had plenty of room on the path to go past her without incident. That was attempted murder.

I don't think it's realistic that someone like that wouldn't have committed other atrocious acts during his life.

I doubt very much that in the circles he was in, a bust for cocaine use would have been much cause for embarrassment, and personal use wouldn't have attracted much more than a slap on the wrist. Easy to come back from when you know the right people.

I would hazard a guess the idea of prison time for attempted murder would have been untenable for someone from that environment used to doing whatever he wanted.

Good riddance.

This is obviously very sad for his child(ren)/family

But how the hell did he evade arrest all this time?

Almost certainly given protection for whatever reasons..wealthy & connected as it turns out

He wasn’t a first cousin to Philip, he would have been second cousin once removed.

His grandmother, Princess Katherine, was Philip’s first cousin as their fathers were brothers.

I don't think people turn out so evil if they are raised in a nice family, with decent people...

I’d call it attempted murder as well.

He chose not to push the other man he passed and targeted the woman specifically and deliberately pushed her in front of the bus.

@ThatCyanCat No women flocked to him, unless you mean the teachers. You were at school; you were all kids, including him and the girls who were drawn to him. Kids/children/youngsters aren't known for their fantastic mature judgement...

I mean when we grew up and became adults.

He was an asshole as a teenager, then we grew up, and he was the same asshole. He did not magically change in any way.

Teens have poor judgement, but I expect 20-something people to be more sensible.

and getting married isn't difficult.

You know that's not correct, so why write that? A very large minority of men have few or no romantic relationships.

So weird how for years people thought he had got away with it and so many people had felt a helpless anger towards him (most especially perhaps his victim).

And yet with a roll of the dice, everything has changed.

If only every violent attack had a resolution.