Putney Bridge jogger .......................case closed.

[HelenaDove]

Just got told this on another thread and found more details on Twitter. its about the jogger who pushed a woman towards a moving bus.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44639208

It happened in May of last year.

Thanks for this helena. I searched for an update on this a few months ago but saw there was none.

How infuriating. I’m convinced that one of the men they investigated was him, they just couldn’t prove it. How on earth he wasn’t captured on other CCTV either leading up to or after his attack is baffling.

There was a theory he might have been a tourist, which wouldn't be that unusual in London. Would explain why no one has been able to find him.

The date this statement was released ................the same day as England were playing a match in the World Cup.

somebody started a thread re. Met Police on AIBU and this case jumped back into my head so i posted on the thread and another MNer said case has been closed so i checked out Twitter where obvs tweets and news are date stamped Tweets about it couldnt gain much traction on the 28th June.

That’s interesting, do you think deliberate? So it would go unnoticed?

Yes good point milly could have been a tourist or travelling businessman who left the country that same day.

YY AWoman I just said similar on the AIBU thread and someone just said to me " Are you saying they released that statement because they wanted to watch the World Cup" Fucking priceless.

Gosh I remember this.
It attracted such a public outcry but the case being closed is so hush, hush. Funny that.
What gets me is someone know exactly who he was and is hiding it.

I will never understand how they didn't capture him on any more cctv. There must have been hundreds of cameras running on the possible routes he took including all those other buses he must have run past. It was London for gods sake. One of the most heavily watched cities in the world.

Exactly milkybar. And he was on a run. He hadnt just nipped across the road for milk. He was on a run that probably covered at least 3k. He came back past the same spot 15 minutes later. That’s about 2-3k for a runner right? There’s bound to have been loads of snaps of him on different CCTV.

Yes And those cameras would have been working surely. Given the terrorist attacks that had taken place previously.

im really not liking this at all

I’m telling you, they had his name in their hands.

Arrrgghhh There are still idiots insisting that she tried to trip him.

It was her coat billowing out. Id forgotten about the victim blaming crap that was aimed at her.

So if she had died under the wheels of the bus, it would be case unsolved? Not a chance.

It was obvious that he deliberately pushed her out of the way.

Oh there will always be idiots tripping over themselves to blame women for their assaults at the hands of men. Always have been, always will be.

I wonder if it would be possible to undo the sneaky “slip it under the radar” work of the police and get this story trending or whatever it is called on Twitter? If we shared it/tweeted it again and again?

A lot of people tried on the 28th June but didnt get anywhere due to the World Cup.

I had my eyes elsewhere myself A woman in a car got attacked by football fans in my town. I shared the video on here. You can clearly see their faces. This happened on the 18th June.

People had their eyes elsewhere either on the football itself or on the behaviour of some of the fans.

No wonder this went under the radar.

Urgh.

I wonder how the victim is feeling about it being closed. I hope she has been able to carry on with her normal route to work since this happened. The fact it has been unsolved must leave her with a degree of “unclosure” (silly word but all I could think of).

I don't believe for a second they don't know who it is. It's like the MH370 - a plane going missing in this day and age of technology. Of course they know, it's Putney .. not some remote place with no cameras. Makes me mad. Poor woman, thankfully she's fine

Tourist or in London on business. Didn’t he double back on himself and run past the crime scene again? That suggests someone unfamiliar with the area who was only staying there temporarily, as a local would be more likely to run a loop. Someone must know him though.

Fair dos - it wasn't for want of trying.

50 suspects identified by the public and followed up. Three arrests, but had to be released (had alibis, were out of the country etc). Loads and loads of publicity.

When the information dries up, the officers have to be switched to other investigations. You can't have them twiddling their thumbs, waiting for a lead.

The headlines are misleading. A case is never 'closed' actually. There will still be an officer with responsibility for the case. It just means that the rest of the team have dispersed and are working on other things.