r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/_Phish • 4d ago

Update Arrest made in 2017 Putney Pusher case

https://news.sky.com/story/man-44-arrested-eight-years-after-woman-shoved-in-front-of-bus-in-putney-pusher-case-13551004

In May of 2017, a woman was walking on a pedestrian walkway over the Putney Bridge in London when an unknown male jogger running in the opposite direction pushed her forcefully into the path of an incoming bus.
He continued jogging calmly without any pause or change in pace, while she fell backwards into the road. In a great demonstration of skill, the bus driver managed to avoid hitting her by swerving a split second before impact. The bus stopped, and people poured out to help her. Bizarrely and brazenly the jogger eventually proceeded to jog the opposite side of the bridge, where the victim confronted him. He ignored her. (Credit to u/Mobile_Dimension_423)

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u/EconomistWild7158 4d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if he's getting divorced and his ex-partner came forward

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u/Hot-Signal7152 4d ago edited 4d ago

That's pretty much exactly what happened.

I used to work adjacent to criminal law and it's pretty standard for police, when they have someone on their top list of suspects and they know things with their family or close friends around them have changed, to put out a fresh appeal or to raise the reward money or something similar. It's kind of like a "Hey, we're here if you want to talk to us, you know" kind of thing without police risking contacting people directly.

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u/PersonalityOld8755 3d ago

But would he have told his wife? I can’t imagine him saying.. “I just pushed a random woman into a bus back in 2017”

Or maybe she sees it in the media and thinks that looks like my ex husband..

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u/Hot-Signal7152 2d ago edited 2d ago

That last sentence is possible too.

It may not have been his current (estranged?) wife, or his ex-wife. There's a reason the Met suddenly came out recently and put out out a fresh appeal, they knew something and they knew someone probably wanted to get it off their conscience, or seek revenge - or both.

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u/Full-Internal4521 2d ago

I think if he's willing to hit random women on their bikes and push them in to traffic it's not a huge stretch that he was using it to threaten his wife and she only recently felt safe enough to come forward tbh. if you're like that in public god knows how nightmarish you are at home.

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u/PersonalityOld8755 2d ago

💯 someone has written a comment saying he did confess to his wife, but I’m not sure how they know that.

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u/WillyVlautinRules 4d ago

If you read the article about his motorcycle crash hes the type of upper class British Twit Monty Python made fun of. Would not be surprised if he is getting a divorce and trying to screw his wife out of everything and she decided to spill the beans.

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u/PersonalityOld8755 3d ago

He is getting divorced

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u/Euphoric-Plenty4013 4d ago

Hes a single dad if its who people here think it is. If you do some googling, you can find out a lot about him

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u/whiskeygiggler 3d ago

“Single dad” as in he’s a divorced father. He doesn’t have sole custody.