Police arrest man nine years after ‘Putney pusher’ incident

15 Jun 2026 • 6:37 PM MYT
The Independent
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Police arrest man nine years after ‘Putney pusher’ incident

  • A 44-year-old man has been arrested in west London in connection with the notorious 'Putney Pusher' incident from 2017, and remains in police custody.
  • The arrest relates to an incident on 5 May 2017, when CCTV footage showed a jogger pushing a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.
  • The victim, who has never been identified, survived with few injuries due to the bus driver's quick actions, which narrowly avoided a fatal collision.
  • The jogger was described as a white man in his early to mid-30s with short brown hair and a stocky build, who returned to the scene 15 minutes later but ignored the victim's calls to stop.
  • This arrest follows a decade-long manhunt; the case was previously closed in 2018 after detectives interviewed 50 men and arrested three suspects, none of whom were charged.

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