Police arrest a man described by outlets as a banker in connection with the long-running hunt for the “Putney Pusher,” following a pedestrian assault on Putney Bridge. Multiple reports say the incident involved a jogger who shoved a woman into the path of a double-decker bus roughly nine to ten years ago, after which the attacker’s identity remained unknown and investigations continued.
The Evening Standard and other outlets report that authorities make a breakthrough leading to the arrest, but do not provide detailed case specifics in the shared text beyond linking the arrest to the Putney Bridge incident. The Daily Mail and Mail Online add that the arrested individual is wealthy and has connections to royalty, while the Evening Standard focuses more on the police investigation and the historical assault. Across the reports, the common elements are the name used for the suspect, the Putney Bridge location, the involvement of a jogger, the woman pushed into oncoming traffic, and the fact that the arrest is the result of renewed police progress nearly a decade after the event.
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