The Putney Pusher has been arrested……9 years on!

MT62

You would think that there would have been DNA from the chaps sweaty hands, that it would have been transferred to the lady’s coat.
So they could have ruled him out straight away if it wasn’t him.

That was the problem. The Police took his DNA but were taking months to analyse it, whether deliberate or not I don't know, but this was messing with his head.

You would think that there would have been DNA from the chaps sweaty hands, that it would have been transferred to the lady’s coat.
So they could have ruled him out straight away if it wasn’t him.

Maremia

MT62, it's what has happened to some RNLI volunteers.
It means identifying and publishing personal information, sometimes addresses, on the internet for malicious intent.

Yes I have heard since I asked. Yes bang out of order to give people’s names & addresses.

Innocent, never proved guilty.

MawsRosie

^Great news, this entitled eejit has been found and arrested 9 years after he pushed a pedestrian under a bus^

Well that was libellous for a start.
1 he was never charged
2 he did not match the description of the attacker( different er colour, tattoo on his arm, wasted calf muscles from injury while serving)
3 he was nowhere near Putney Bridge at the time
The fact that the Met did not pursue the investigation suggests to me anyway that they had very little to go on
However, mud sticks and now this man - decorated for Service bravery, but clearly a troubled soul - has decided he can take no more.
Proud of yourself?

That was the point and what prompted my post @ lovetopaint

He died a few days ago. Family said the pressure of the investigation was too much for him.

I would imagine they were clutching at straws because what hard evidence would there even be? I wonder how they found the 50 men, maybe people identifying someone they know from the camera footage.

I don't see why the Police should be red-faced about one suspect being in America. That is their job after all, to eliminate suspects.

I find it strange there is no more cctv footage either in Putney or Fulham as he ran home. They tell us there are cameras everywhere so let's see them.

Just as a footnote and perhaps to illustrate how ineffectual the Met investigation at the time was, according to today’s Sunday Times,
In the months that followed, detectives interviewed 50 men and arrested three suspects. Police were left red-faced after one, Eric Bellquist, an investment banker, was quickly able to prove that he had been in America at the time. The investigation was closed in 2018 after the failure to charge anyone

It suggests somebody was clutching at straws rather than any hard evidence.

Oh here chestnut

Padstow13

Innocent unless proved guilty?

He's so far been arrested. That's all.

Exactly so. Some of the venomous remarks on a social media site that's allegedly for mature, decent people are outrageous. If he really was innocent (his family have claimed that DNA evidence will prove it), it's no wonder he killed himself. Why do people indulge in such vicious speculation on things they know almost nothing about?

I was interested to hear he lived in Notting Hill and not Chiswick which is where they said he lived now, so either way, he would never be doing a morning run over Putney Bridge!

If you look at Google maps you'll see that the Pusher was much more likely to live in Fulham due to the curve of the river. His morning run would have been over the bridge and turn right along the towpath (where the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race starts) because he'd be unlikely to run up Putney High Street, much too busy. Then it seems he turned round and came back over the bridge towards Fulham.

It was a morning run, unlikely to be several miles through busy city streets, more like a warm-up before work. I'd say he lived in Fulham.

Yes, of course the Met Police have questions to answer in this case.

Saying that is not pointing fingers or making accusations as you seem to allege.

No idea and neither do you.
How do you know they have a lot to answer for? They may well have, or not, as yet we dont know.
If we are castigating posters for every word then I am going to point out some of the difficulties in what the accusers are saying particular in relation to discussion of suicide.

Galaxy

So we aren't allowed to make accusations but posters are now blaming the met police for someone's death with no evidence as yet. Presumably that too is trial by media.

The press were aldo in attendance when the police went to arrest him.
"Describing Brandram's "hostile" arrest in June, his sister said: "My brother woke up to a large handful of police officers wearing armed vests and with a film crew on the doorstep from the media."
"His name was leaked on social media channels within a couple of days. And that's when the vitriol started online. Thanks to the leak,"

How did the press know? Who leaked the information?
Saying the Met have a lot to answer for is not trial by media.
They do have a lot of questions to answer in this case, which is why the Met has referred itself to the Police Watchdog.

Presumably the Met arrested several men while they looked into them. That often happens.

So we aren't allowed to make accusations but posters are now blaming the met police for someone's death with no evidence as yet. Presumably that too is trial by media.

However, mud sticks and now this man - decorated for Service bravery, but clearly a troubled soul - has decided he can take no more.
Truly shocking. He was tried and sentenced by the media.

MawsRosie

^Great news, this entitled eejit has been found and arrested 9 years after he pushed a pedestrian under a bus^

Well that was libellous for a start.
1 he was never charged
2 he did not match the description of the attacker( different er colour, tattoo on his arm, wasted calf muscles from injury while serving)
3 he was nowhere near Putney Bridge at the time
The fact that the Met did not pursue the investigation suggests to me anyway that they had very little to go on
However, mud sticks and now this man - decorated for Service bravery, but clearly a troubled soul - has decided he can take no more.
Proud of yourself?

Thank you for this post.

MawsRosie

^Great news, this entitled eejit has been found and arrested 9 years after he pushed a pedestrian under a bus^

Well that was libellous for a start.
1 he was never charged
2 he did not match the description of the attacker( different er colour, tattoo on his arm, wasted calf muscles from injury while serving)
3 he was nowhere near Putney Bridge at the time
The fact that the Met did not pursue the investigation suggests to me anyway that they had very little to go on
However, mud sticks and now this man - decorated for Service bravery, but clearly a troubled soul - has decided he can take no more.
Proud of yourself?

His sisters said that :
"Their brother lived in Notting Hill, had no connection with Putney and they had evidence that he had sent an email from his Bond Street office at around the time of the attack"

"He willingly provided a DNA sample to the Met to speed up the inquiry but never received results, despite pleading with police to speed them up"
BBC

Chestnut's post sums it all up.
Trial by media.
And now he is dead, so tragic.

The Met Police, too, have a lot to answer for yet again.

MT62, it's what has happened to some RNLI volunteers.
It means identifying and publishing personal information, sometimes addresses, on the internet for malicious intent.

If we are going to pick people apart then I would point out that attributing suicide to one reason is advised against and considered inappropriate.

People should never be named until they have been proven guilty ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’ in a court of law.

MissAdventure

There are cases of people pushing strangers onto train tracks, as well as sone time ago, the young man who threw a little boy over the top of the safety rails at a museum or gallery.
He had apparently told people for some time that he had the urge to do it.
The human brain, eh?
It's a deep, potentially murky thing.

This is entirely irrelevant, unsubstantiated and implies guilt by association .
There is no connection between these cases .
Whataboutery at best,
At worst Slander/libel st least- malicious too.

Another thread that makes me think GN is no longer for me…

Great news, this entitled eejit has been found and arrested 9 years after he pushed a pedestrian under a bus

Well that was libellous for a start.
1 he was never charged
2 he did not match the description of the attacker( different er colour, tattoo on his arm, wasted calf muscles from injury while serving)
3 he was nowhere near Putney Bridge at the time
The fact that the Met did not pursue the investigation suggests to me anyway that they had very little to go on
However, mud sticks and now this man - decorated for Service bravery, but clearly a troubled soul - has decided he can take no more.
Proud of yourself?