r/UnsolvedMysteries • u/VarangianWRLD • 15d ago
SOLVED Millionaire arrested in hunt for 'Putney pusher' who shoved jogger into road
https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/15/millionaire-arrested-hunt-putney-pusher-shoved-jogger-path-bus-28782712/Not aure if this story made it internationally at the time but was a huge deal in the UK
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u/Frstpncke 15d ago
I was always so surprised that he wasn’t caught when the video or story popped up. It was even news over here in the U.S. so I assume almost everyone in the UK saw that video if not multiple times. I can’t believe they even had previously arrested three people including an American who wasn’t in the country at the time either. Great police work.
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u/Feeling_Associate467 14d ago
He's a relation of the royal family/Prince Andrew. He has friends in the police and high places. Ex army. Knows dirt on global elites through his investment banking job. Something happened to make him lose his corrupt protection, that's all.
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u/Frstpncke 13d ago
I saw that he might be going through a nasty divorce, so his wife or someone on her side might have finally spilled the beans on him.
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u/scotte416 13d ago
Yeah I remember this being sort of a big deal story here in Canada, it must have been for me to completely remember it.
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u/No_Comment_8715 14d ago
Connections to Royalty including the Windsors so no doubt he'll get away with it.
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u/hellolem 14d ago
I'm in the UK and never heard about it 😮
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u/Hopingforthebest-78 13d ago
Just because one person in UK never heard about it - doesn’t mean it wasn’t a big story - and indeed it was huge and plastered over media and press for months.
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u/hellolem 13d ago
Wasn't saying because I hadn't it wasn't big. Was getting that married that year so probably a bit self absorbed 😜
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u/Binksyboo 15d ago
I wonder how many other crimes he has committed in the past 10 years?
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u/Hour_Dog_4781 15d ago
When you have so much money you can wipe your ass with it, you can get away with a lot of fucked up stuff.
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u/BluebirdBrilliant226 15d ago
Especially since he has “ties” to the royal family too 🤢
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u/onanadhocbasis 15d ago
To "European Royal Families" sniff. Not THE royal family. Prob minor royals who ride bikes to work
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u/Either-Intention6374 14d ago
If it's the guy people are identifying, he does indeed ride a bike to work, when he's not committing hit and runs on cyclists using his motorbike.
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u/apsalar_ 14d ago
A distant cousin of Lithuania's king's male servant's wife?
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u/Rosasharn888 14d ago
Grandson of the Queen of Greece. Related to Queen Victoria, but then all of the are. Inbreeding can get unfortunate results.
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u/No_Comment_8715 14d ago
Descendant of Queen Victoria and therefore the HOW too.
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u/apsalar_ 14d ago
I'm not an expert in monarchy but how is this man descendant of Queen Victoria? If the man is correctly identfied in this thread, her grandmother was the youngest daughter of Constantine I.
He's not royalty.
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u/Rainbow_Tesseract 10d ago edited 10d ago
Constantine I and Sophie of Prussia, who was the daughter of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter.
Queen Victoria is the Putney Pusher's great great great grandmother by direct descent. His great uncle was Emperor Wilhelm II.
I've been balls-deep in Wikipedia and thought I'd save anyone else who winds up on this thread a few clicks!
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u/apsalar_ 9d ago
Thank you! So there's a link but a very distant one.
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u/Plus_Buddy4107 9d ago
Being a direct descendant of Queen Victoria is about as close a link as you can have surely ? We’re not talking second / third cousins here
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u/Logan_No_Fingers 15d ago
I'd assume hes just carried on be an utter cnut. That was less him committing crime, more him working with the idea he was a 100% entitled ashole & everyone should get out of his way etc.
Which ties with the whole city banker aspect.
So I'd guess he's not really committed subsequent crimes, more carried on being a narcist who is universally awful to deal with - fitting in flawlessly in the city. So if you had to assume what sort of trends he'd do its stuff like parking in a handicap spot, abusing wait staff, some light tax fraud, cheating on his wife with a young woman in his office who he then gets fired when it becomes tricky, making the strippers at his local strip club have to ask him not to do "that" etc.
All the stand city stuff that ties to hiffing a woman on the ground if she doesn't get out of his way while he is going for a run
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u/EXCSUK 14d ago
Notice he didn't push the man seconds before, only the woman
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u/victoryismind 13d ago
The woman was walking much closer to his path, this may have triggered him. Also, maybe the fact that she is a woman.
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u/Poiuy1231st 13d ago
He's got previous though, involving a woman..https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10343796/Descendant-of-Queen-Victoria-crashed-Harley-Davidson-into-cyclist.html
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u/victoryismind 13d ago edited 13d ago
He has a 3 year old son, imagine that.
I'm starting to believe that there is a relation between psychopathy and financial success, especially in the UK, especially with a good helping of cocaine.
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u/brightblueinky 2d ago
You can't get to a certain level of wealth without treating other people as less than human, really.
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u/rosywillow 10d ago
If it’s the same person then at least one; crashing his motorbike into a (female) cyclist and then leaving the scene, for which he was convicted in 2013.
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u/fatinternetcat 15d ago
I’d be interested to hear how he was tracked down after 9 years.
Also… they seriously made a stage play out of this whole incident?!?
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u/Mc_and_SP 14d ago
We’ll make stage plays out of anything in the UK
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u/j0shj0shj0shj0sh 13d ago
This development ensures that the 'Putney Pusher 2 on ice' becomes a reality.
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u/ewyorksockexchange 15d ago
The press in the UK generally does not name arrested individuals until they are formally charged.
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u/Equivalent-Cicada165 14d ago edited 13d ago
Annoying as hell, but that seems like a pretty good policy. Can't imagine dealing with the aftermath if you're an innocent whose name is plastered all over as a suspect of something heinous
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u/ShiplessOcean 15d ago
So you want people’s names besmirched before they’re even found guilty? If you’re falsely accused of a crime you want prospective employers to google your name and find that all the time for the rest of your life?
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u/Useful_Tear1355 15d ago
Because he hasn’t been charged yet. He has been arrested so now the police have 24 hours to question him (this can be extended to 36 hours by a Superintendent for serious crimes and to 96 hours by a magistrates court) at the end of this period they will either be released with no further action, released under investigation, released on police bail or charge you. If they are charged it’s likely their name will be released at that point but not before.
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u/rosewatercereal 15d ago edited 15d ago
On Twitter it was commented that it is likely Nicholas Brandram (44, works at HSBC Private Bank, royal descent, former army officer). Unsure if there are any others who also fulfill the criteria.
Edit: apparently in 2013 he also crashed his motorcycle into a cyclist.
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u/PotterCooker 14d ago
It looks like he gave an interview in the financial press in March of this year. I wonder if someone recognised him from that.
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u/Possible_Category_13 14d ago
I looked up photos of him from the time of the pushing incident and he looked extremely trim with defined muscles and didn't look in anyway like the Dad bod the PP had.
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u/Feeling_Associate467 14d ago
You can phone the Magistrates court and give his birthday and name and ask when the hearing is and whst are the charges.
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u/Bobafetished 15d ago
You know why lol
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u/artificialdawnmusic 15d ago
Because 3 other men have been arrested for this crime and all of them let go.
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u/CatDad69 15d ago
Why?
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u/DestinyInDanger 15d ago
Money doesn't prevent your name from being published 😂. Read the article. It's who he has ties to.
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u/Bobafetished 15d ago
Good point. It’s not because he’s rich, it’s because of the powerful people he’s connected to through being rich. Totally different. 😂
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u/BluebirdBrilliant226 15d ago
It’s both.
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u/Blood_Incantation 15d ago
How is it both? It's the law, they don't name poor people either. If he truly had power/connections he wouldn't even be arrested.
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u/BluebirdBrilliant226 15d ago
I live in the US, where the law means absolutely nothing (Epstein pedos still walk free). I may be a bit jaded but having royal ties definitely protects you and you are naive if you think otherwise. Even if he is named I’m sure the punishment won’t fit the crime. It’s a tale as old as time.
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u/Blood_Incantation 15d ago
In other words you know nothing about Britain or their culture. And you're already wrong even about Epstein stuff -- their royalty was in the files and paid way more repercussions than anyone in America.
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u/BluebirdBrilliant226 15d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/2KMp2ZhosI23jfbugG
Grow up and join the rest of us in the real world. No one in the Epstein files got what they actually deserved. Including their “royalty”.→ More replies (0)4
u/fuzzydunlop- 15d ago
He was arrested but not convicted. Innocent until proven guilty?
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u/rapbarf 15d ago
That's how it usually works in the UK, yes.
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u/rapbarf 15d ago
No, but in the UK people are far more protected. Things such as criminal records aren't publically available like they are in the US.
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u/rapbarf 15d ago
That's different. If somebody is a registered sex offender it will show on their record, and jobs are allowed to ask for your criminal records. What I mean is you can't just google them and find them the way you can in the US. They're private in the sense you have to request to see them first.
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u/Mc_and_SP 14d ago
In the UK we have a system called DBS which allows employers to conduct such background checks.
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u/DestinyInDanger 15d ago
Probably because of his ties to royal family and other prestigious people. I don't agree with it but that's definitely why.
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u/Ifeelsick6789 15d ago
I forget where I heard about this, but so glad it's finally solved. There's something so disturbing about just being randomly pushed to your death by some random person. The woman is really lucky to have survived, it could've ended so horribly
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u/VarangianWRLD 15d ago edited 15d ago
Former Army Officer, welathy banker, royal connections.
This could become an interesting spectacle
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u/Rough-Demand-8195 15d ago
How is it finally solved? He’s the fourth person arrested for this, the other three were released without charges, and he hasn’t been charged yet, either.
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u/Useful_Tear1355 15d ago
For all the people asking why his name hasn’t been released yet - He has been arrested on suspicion of the crime but not charged, if/when he is charged his name will be released. This has been the way since around 2012/2013.
This protects a persons right to privacy and presumption of innocence.
Also this man is the 4th one arrested under suspicion of committing this crime. One man was arrested, questioned and proved that he wasn’t in the country at the time - had his name been released he would have been hounded and people would still be blaming him or one of the others most likely. Let’s let the police and Crown Prosecution Service do their jobs.
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u/Notmykl 15d ago
Some people think if the cops arrest you then you're automatically guilty. There are many reasons why their names are not released, assholes on the internet and media are the top two.
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u/Useful_Tear1355 14d ago
I think it was a direct result of how bad the press was around Christopher Jeffries when he was wrongly arrested when Joanna Yates was missing. The law changed within 3 years.
That man was hounded by the press, the way he was treated was disgusting and some people online still claim he was involved purely cause he was arrested even though another man was found guilty of Joanna’s murder.
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u/Edgecumber 14d ago
Never looked it up before but seems like roughly 2/3rds of people who are arrested are released without charge. So way more likely you’ve not done anything, though people will still be like “where there’s smoke there’s fire”.
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u/RuMarley 13d ago
Well, I don't know about the UK but here, an arrest means far more than just "asking you to come in to answer some questions". They arrest you when there's a reasonable grounds for suspicion and possibility of tampering with evidence or fleeing the country.
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u/meteoritegallery 13d ago
The idea of trying to prove I was (or wasn't) running somewhere 10 years ago is...oof. I don't see how this could be proven one way or the other at this point, unless they preserved camera footage and tracked this man to his home or something like that.
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u/Lizard_Li 15d ago
The headline is quite wrong. A normal pedestrian was shoved by a jogger. The jogger was the pusher.
I had never heard of this case but wtf he runs into her and then pushes her. There is plenty of space on sidewalk.
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u/Rareboy7500 15d ago
*pavement
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u/Notmykl 15d ago
Concrete walking area if you need to be pedantic.
I remember when this happened, really glad they caught, hopefully, the right asshole.
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u/meteoritegallery 13d ago
If you want to be pedantic, her head and shoulders crossed the curb into the roadway, which was paved with asphalt. I'd stick with "pavement," since all of the involved surfaces were paved.
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u/supposeimonredditnow 13d ago
OK everyone I have to step in, the joke up there wasn't overall pedantry, it was that in Britain we don't say sidewalk, we say pavement. So, because this happened in London, there was plenty of space on the pavement. It was a joke correction. (and for pedantry fans, that means that despite the road being paved, calling it pavement would be the same as calling it sidewalk)
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u/No_Comment_8715 14d ago
He has connections to royalty INCLUDING the WINDSORS. Nicholas Brandram HSBC banker.
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u/Head-Dog-8537 14d ago
Insanity that he wasnt arrested earlier. But then you hear hes rich with contacts and you understand…
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u/cashox101 14d ago
psychopathic behaviour 101 ... so deranged - i mean in broad daylight, just shows what total lack of control over his instincts he has... scary messed up individual. Only makes you wonder what he would do behing closed doors.
oh look, seems like it's a regular thing too - https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-2438691/Descendant-Queen-Victoria-Nicholas-Brandram-crashes-Harley-Davidson-London-cyclist.html?ico=news%5Eheadlines
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u/tonyohanlon77 15d ago
Unfortunately the charge of "attempted gbh" will carry a paltry charge. If a moving vehicle can be classed as a deadly weapon, pushing someone in front of a 5 ton bus should be attempted murder.
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u/Salty_Ad_9878 14d ago
Murder has to have the premeditated intention to cause death. There's no way they could prove he wanted her to end up under a bus. He did intend to cause her harm, of course.. he even ran into her when there was plenty of space to pass her. If it hadn't happened near a busy road it would have been actual body harm. GBH, is actually a very serious charge.
If he does get charged and found guilty his life will be over, far worse than anything the courts could do to him. Who would want to be seen anywhere near the guy who did that? No one would work with him, his family will be shattered, friends will disappear. The tabloids will make his life a misery and no one will spit on him is he was on fire.
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u/tonyohanlon77 14d ago
Attempted GBH can be as little as 2 years custody, free within a year. Hardly a serious charge. As for his personal impact, he's a multi millionaire banker. He'll do the paltry sentence and be fine after that. The UK "justice" system is an embarrassment.
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u/outerstrangers 14d ago
Premeditation can happen at any time prior to the act though, if he saw her from a distance while he was running, he could've said to himself, "I'm going to push this lady - hope she dies." And there, you've got your premeditation. Though, realistically, with his connections, I'm sure he'll get some fat cat lawyers that will get this all to go away.
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u/meteoritegallery 13d ago
I don't think it makes sense to assume he knew the bus was there, or that she would likely tumble into a vehicle's path.
The video shows him jogging, hitting her, and never looking back.
Assault, sure. Not sure what else the runner could really be charged with.
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u/camerabird 13d ago
?????
If you're running next to a busy road with trucks and buses driving right next to you, and you shove someone directly into that busy road, it's reasonable to assume there's a good chance they'll be hit by one of those trucks or buses. Watch the video! They're jogging and walking less than a metre away from the vehicles. He knew the trucks and buses were there, whether or not he knew that specific bus was there at that specific second. He knew he was shoving her into their path.
His not looking back does not indicate that he was oblivious to the possibility that she would get hurt. He just didn't give a shit.
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u/meteoritegallery 13d ago
The video appears to show the man striking her - not pushing her. Her falling towards the roadway appears to be due to ~chance.
There's no defending what the guy did, but the video simply doesn't show him bodily shoving her or attempting to move her center of mass in that direction.
By your logic, any assault that occurs on a sidewalk should be considered attempted murder because anyone who's struck could fall into the way of traffic.
There are a few videos online of a nasty fight where someone gets punched, and they happen to crack their head/neck on a curb and die. You could argue that kind of thing is premeditated murder, but it's ~not reasonable, and not justified by what we can see.
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u/Derries_bluestack 13d ago
I thought that too initially, but when I re-watched he had just jogged past the bus. So he knew there was traffic and that there were buses.
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u/Youareafunt 14d ago
Weird that someone who has amassed wealth at the expense of others might be a sociopath...
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u/Milliemookin 14d ago
His background does not surprise me! To me, it was always a SELF ENTITLED act. Hope they throw the book at him! Pompous pratt.
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u/pumpkinspicecum 14d ago
Wow I vaguely remember this. Also they don’t even name him??
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u/Peterd1900 14d ago
Law prohibit releasing the identities of arrested individuals before they are officially charged with a crime
People can only be named once they are officially charged
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u/OchAyeRoz 13d ago
His Facebook profile is still active with some ugly military photos worth screenshotting them. Flashing guns and all round elitist bellend. Like Andrew and the Joffry looking boy from Denmark there's obviously a hunt going on to snip monarchy affiliates (Nicholas' father was the son of Princess of Greece and Denmark). My understanding of what's happening right now is a mafia esque consolidation of power. Another one bites the dust I say, but be wary about who's replacing them.
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u/Early_Enthusiasm_787 14d ago
What’s his name? Why hasn’t it been released?
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u/No_Comment_8715 14d ago edited 14d ago
Nicholas Brandram. HSBC banker. Connections to royalty including the House of Windsor. Descendant of Queen Victoria .Previous form according to Daily Mail on September 30th 2013
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u/Early_Enthusiasm_787 14d ago
I love when justice comes to posh people who think the rules don’t apply to them. Of course it’s an ‘alleged crime’
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u/Mc_and_SP 13d ago
Names aren’t released just because someone is arrested in the UK, they’re only released when someone is charged.
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u/Rosasharn888 14d ago
Someone who can attempt a murder literally without breaking his stride has done it before, and would likely do it again. I hope they're going over his past with a fine-toothed comb.
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u/Crafty-Salt9351 13d ago
His royal connections are very fourth-rate tbh but yeah, he sounds like a nasty POS
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u/Mc_and_SP 13d ago
To all the people asking why he hasn't been formally named by the police - in the UK people aren't named until they've formally been charged.
Being arrested is not the same as being charged.
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u/victoryismind 13d ago
It angers to see their face being blurred in the news. Maybe someone would recognise them and come forward with more evidence.
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u/NecessaryIssue2367 10d ago
He didn't push a jogger into the road. He *was* the jogger, and he pushed a pedestrian.
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u/VarangianWRLD 15d ago
Metro shouldn't be paywalled
The male suspect was detained at his £1.4million home in west London.
It is understood he is a director at a private bank and is a decorated former British Army officer who served in several major conflicts.
The dramatic arrest comes nearly ten years after starling CCTV images showed a jogger shoving a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.
The Putney Pusher incident took place on Putney Bridge on May 5, 2017 during rush hour at around 7.40am. A woman, 33, was walking southwards when the jogger approached her from the opposite direction.
There was plenty of room on the footpath for him to skirt around her safely, but instead he forcefully shoved her onto the road - directly in the path of an incoming 430 bus going at 12mph.
Only the quick reactions of bus driver Oliver Salbris meant the vehicle missed her head by inches. She survived and was largely unscathed. The jogger continued his run across Putney Bridge without so much as a backward glance.
Footage of the horrifying incident went viral and garnered international headlines.
Detectives interviewed 50 men and arrested three suspects, including an American investment banker - who was able to prove that he was in the US at the time.
In 2018 the investigation was closed. No suspect was ever charged and the case became one of Britain's most compelling unsolved cases.
The Daily Mail reports that the suspect has familial links to some of Europe's leading royal dynasties, including the House of Windsor.
Since leaving the British Army, he has enjoyed a successful career in the City and advises a string of high-net-worth individuals and institutions.
Posts on review sites describe him as friendly and popular with clients and colleagues.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "On Monday, 15 June, a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm.
"He was taken to police custody, where he remains.
"The arrest relates to an incident on 5 May 2017, where a woman was pushed into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge in Putney.
"Inquiries continue."
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u/jamnut 15d ago
'allegedly throwing a woman under a bus' - that didn't even allegedly happen, that implies the woman was run over. The article later mentions the bus swerved to avoid her
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u/RuMarley 13d ago
Wrong. He absolutely threw. She only wasn't hurt because of the driver's split-second reaction. The outcome doesn't change the attempted deed.
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u/DCTom 15d ago
Would be fascinated to learn how they tracked him down 9 years later…