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Putney Bridge

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Sep 18, 2026

BeauHOST
30:44
We talked yesterday, didn't we? We talked yesterday about the, well, they forced us to talk a little bit about the Putney Pusher.
BeauHOST
30:54
Someone was jogging across Putney Bridge years ago.
BeauHOST
30:57
Was it like 2017? And pushed some woman nearly under a bus.
BeauHOST
31:06
And then all the papers were saying it was this guy.
Helen HoddenCORRESPONDENT
0:50
The family of the Putney pusher suspect have blamed police over his death, insisting he was innocent.
Helen HoddenCORRESPONDENT
0:56
I'm Helen Hodnot for LBC on Putney Bridge, where it all began.
Nick FerrariHOST
1:00
In a newspaper interview, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, says that Daniel Thomas is a far-right and outright racist.
Nick FerrariHOST
1:06
So is it racist or is it racism to protest against the arrival of asylum seekers? In other news, the Mayor of London, Sadiq, now Lord Khan, responding to a question from the Green Party leader, Zak Polanski.

11 MINS LATER

Nick FerrariHOST
12:34
It's the king size row, but who do you support? In other news.
Helen HoddenCORRESPONDENT
12:37
The family of the Putney pusher suspects say he was innocent and that the Met is to blame for his death.
Helen HoddenCORRESPONDENT
12:43
I'm Helen Hodnot for LBC on Putney Bridge.
Nick FerrariHOST
12:46
Meanwhile, global protests, and I mean global, right around the world about soaring fuel prices.
RosieNARRATOR
14:05
Then she went up the river to drown herself.
RosieNARRATOR
14:08
She paced the road at Putney on an October night in 1795 in heavy rain until her clothes were drenched that she might sink more surely, and then threw herself from the top of Putney Bridge.
RosieNARRATOR
14:20
She was rescued and lived on with dead in spirit.
RosieNARRATOR
14:23
In 1796, these Letters from Sweden and Norway were published.
Jane SteeleHOST
12:41
inflation.The family of a man found dead this week after being arrested on suspicion of trying to push a woman in front of a bus have blamed the police investigation for his death.
Jane SteeleHOST
12:52
Nicholas Brandrum was detained earlier this year in connection with the incident, which happened on Putney Bridge in 2017.
Jane SteeleHOST
12:58
His relatives insist he was not the so-called Putney Pusher and say the Metropolitan Police had put him under immense pressure in the lead up to his death.
Jane SteeleHOST
13:06
The force has referred itself to the Police Watchdog.
Sean DilleyCORRESPONDENT
13:21
In June this year, forty-four-year-old Nicholas Brandrum was arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm and was later released under criminal investigation.
Sean DilleyCORRESPONDENT
13:30
New Scotland Yard said he was found dead at his home last Tuesday evening, and his death was being treated as unexpected but not suspicious.
Sean DilleyCORRESPONDENT
13:38
In a statement, Mr. Brandrum's family said he did not resemble the suspect who was pictured on CCTV, and there had been no evidence he was on Putney Bridge that day.
Sean DilleyCORRESPONDENT
13:47
They said he'd lived with the shame and humiliation created by a wholly unnecessary investigation, and they said police had repeatedly been asked to end their inquiry and had been warned about the impact on Mr. Brandrum's mental health.
Nadia SawalhaHOST
9:00
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Mark AdderleyHOST
9:01
... a 2017 incident in which a jogger running across Putney Bridge pushed a woman towards an oncoming bus.
Mark AdderleyHOST
9:08
I don't know if you remember, the driver of the bus was declared a hero because he had literally such sort of sharp shooting responses to pivot the car, and it avoided essentially running over her head or taking her head off.
Mark AdderleyHOST
9:22
But there was a huge campaign to find the man.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:07
Nicholas Brandrum was detained at his home in Chiswick, southwest London, in June on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:15
The arrest was linked to a notorious 2017 incident in which a jogger shoved a female pedestrian into the path of an oncoming double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:24
Traffic coming on the right-hand side.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:27
So it was really quick.
Dan WoottonHOST
49:25
Police described his death as unexpected, but not suspicious.
Dan WoottonHOST
49:32
We all agree that it is most likely that he took his own life, even though there has not yet been official confirmation of that.
Dan WoottonHOST
49:43
The Sun reported the former army officer was under investigation by police over the Putney Bridge incident in which a jogger pushed a woman into the path of an oncoming bus on the 5th of May 2017.
Dan WoottonHOST
49:55
No charges were brought.
BeauHOST
17:50
Something like that.
BeauHOST
17:52
He was just having a jog across Putney Bridge in West London.
BeauHOST
17:57
And he did push someone, a woman I think, was it? I can't remember the details.
BeauHOST
18:02
He pushed someone that was sort of in his way.

10 MINS LATER

BeauHOST
27:44
charlie xcx don't care okay they go with the putney pusher the metro decide the putney pusher story is the most important thing in the world today they could report on anything quite literally anything in the entire world Tragedy nine years after bridge mystery.
BeauHOST
28:06
I think they've got a tiny clip there.
BeauHOST
28:08
Look, this is Putney Bridge.
BeauHOST
28:09
This is a bus coming towards us.
Henry RileyCORRESPONDENT
12:59
The man suspected of being the Putney pusher in 2017 has been found dead at his home.
Henry RileyCORRESPONDENT
13:05
I'm LBC's Henry Riley on Putney Bridge.
Nick FerrariHOST
13:07
Plus a new invasion of the Falklands.
Nick FerrariHOST
13:09
No, it's not Argentina.

7 MINS LATER

Nick FerrariHOST
20:03
Do you remember that story? That was all in quotes.
Nick FerrariHOST
20:05
Let's get more details.
Nick FerrariHOST
20:06
LBC's reporter Henry Riley joins us from Putney Bridge.
Nick FerrariHOST
20:09
Henry, remind everybody the background of this story.
Mike HoskingHOST
80:36
Yeah.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
80:36
For anyone who hasn't followed it, guy running over Putney Bridge in London, jogging.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
80:41
A woman is in the path.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
80:42
She's not in his way.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
139:09
So we go back nine years with this case and detectives got absolutely nowhere for the best part of nine years until a man was arrested in June of this year in West London.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
139:21
The Putney pusher, Putney Bridge, in West London.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
139:26
It's a wealthy part of town.
Enda BradyCORRESPONDENT
139:27
It's a lovely part of London to live.

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