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

I thought that. Wife, mistress shopped him. Thank goodness. Dreadful man.

Exactly what I thought, Paperbackwriter

Paperbackwriter

He is apparently 'recently divorced'. I know it's not for us to speculate but if I were to be still writing, I'd be wondering about a vengeful wife/abandoned mistress etc. (Please don't have a go at me for this - fiction used to be my job, after all!)

Why not. What a way to get back at him.

I would imagine that all the improvements in facial recognition have led to this.

I can almost guarantee there will be a documentary made about this incident.

It's absolutely chilling to watch.
How on earth could a partner stay quiet about it all these years?

MissAdventure

It's absolutely chilling to watch.
How on earth could a partner stay quiet about it all these years?

The wife may have remained quiet until she was ready to leave him, then when the divorce settlement was done (lump sum hopefully) she blabbed!!!!!

In reality it could be anything, a scorned mistress,colleague or even a relation that couldn’t keep it in any longer.

He will have got a very expensive barrister and is probably fighting very hard to keep his job etc.

I am intrigued to know the full, story.

Yes why ….she wasn’t in his way at all

Thought it might be DNA off his grubby mits when he pushed her.

BlueBelle

Yes why ….she wasn’t in his way at all

Yes I think she was to one side as I recall. Wonder what possessed him to do a thing like that.

Cossy

What an awful thing and thank goodness he’s been caught!

Really he wasn’t caught was he, wife grassed him up by the sounds of it.
I don’t know what I would do if my husband told me that he had pushed someone in front of a bus tbh🤔
Mind you once I saw that footage I don’t think I could be with him.

I am wondering if it was ‘runner rage’. Have seen runners get irritated by people who are in their way and slow them down, many get obsessed with their ‘best time’ for running a set distance. Once my husband who is disabled was elbowed by a runner and would have lost his balance if I didn’t get hold of him. Of course most are courteous but I think there is such a thing as ‘runner rage’ and the Putney pusher may have been slowed down by others then just taken it out on the woman who fell in front of the bus.
Could be totally off beam here and either way I think he needs to serve time for attempted manslaughter.

And if I was the wife of a man who nearly killed a woman I would have rung the police as soon as I found out. Knowing what he is capable would have raised a massive red flag.

*capable of

Fallingstar

And if I was the wife of a man who nearly killed a woman I would have rung the police as soon as I found out. Knowing what he is capable would have raised a massive red flag.

Absolutely 💯

He really is an entitled pratt. Arrogant. How he has lived with himself I just dont know but do people like him have a conscience.
I think Plevey was right the first time.
I hope he does time inside as well.

I can't help but wonder how his victim has felt, over the years.
It must be really hard to put something like that behind you.

MissAdventure

I can't help but wonder how his victim has felt, over the years.
It must be really hard to put something like that behind you.

I bet she doesn’t go near a curb edge!

I crossed that bridge every day to school, either walking or on a bus. That is the third very high profile unsolved crime on the streets where I played as a child. First we had Suzy Lamplugh in 1986, then Jill Dando in 1999 and then the Putney Pusher in 2017.

Hopefully this one is solved, although he has been released on bail and not charged as far as I know. It would be great if the other two were solved, but I don't think it's possible now.

Jill Dando is an absolutely puzzling case.
I tend to think she was perhaps going to host a "dispatches" type progamme, and somebody, or somebodies, wanted to silence her.

Have seen runners get irritated by people who are in their way and slow them down

But that’s just the point FallingStar she wasn’t in his way there was loads of room if I remember rightly he had to lean over to push her.

The police have said ‘Allegiances change’ so reading between the lines a partner or friend who knew who he was has shopped him. I wonder if they could be charged with something themselves, such as withholding evidence?

I think the reason for the push is the big mystery. There is no logical reason, so we are left wondering why on earth someone would do that to a stranger. I just wonder if people are nervous walking across the bridge now.

I always have an instinct to stay away from edges of platforms or pavements myself. Not only might someone push into you but traffic sometimes comes right to the edge of pavements. You are not safe standing on a kerb. I remember seeing double decker buses go quite fast down a hill and almost touching the kerb. If someone was standing on the kerb chatting to a friend they would be mincemeat. You have to take responsibility for your own safety at all times.

Autumncolours

The police have said ‘Allegiances change’ so reading between the lines a partner or friend who knew who he was has shopped him. I wonder if they could be charged with something themselves, such as withholding evidence?

I would hope so. Knowing that maniac was at large and capable of such acts for all this time should carry a penalty for whoever kept such an awful secret.

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.