{"id":626860,"date":"2026-09-16T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626860\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:16:11","slug":"suspected-london-putney-pusher-found-dead-media-reports-say-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626860\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected London \u2018Putney Pusher\u2019 found dead, media reports say \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man suspected of being the \u201cPutney \u200cPusher\u201d, who knocked a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/3\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/london\/3\/\">London<\/a> nine years ago in a mystery incident that  attracted huge publicity, has \u200bbeen found dead, British media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nicholas Brandram (44) had been arrested in June on suspicion of grievous bodily harm over the event, which \u200boccurred on Putney Bridge in May 2017, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Closed-circuit TV footage had \u2060captured the moment a man jogging along the bridge inexplicably \u200cpushed \u200cthe \u200b33-year-old victim to the ground. Her head and upper body fell into the path of an \u2060oncoming bus, which managed \u200bto swerve out of her \u200bway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite attracting huge media attention, a suspect was not traced \u200cat the time and no \u200bmotive for what happened was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Media reports said Brandram, a \u2060descendant of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irish-diary\/2025\/12\/08\/royal-visit-queen-victorias-many-connections-to-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irish-diary\/2025\/12\/08\/royal-visit-queen-victorias-many-connections-to-ireland\/\">queen Victoria<\/a> who \u2060had \u200balso been arrested on suspicion of drug possession, had now been found dead at his home in west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">London police confirmed in a statement that a man had been found unresponsive at an address in Chiswick on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSadly, a 44-year-old man was pronounced dead at \u200cthe scene. His next of kin \u2060have been informed,\u201d the statement said. \u201cAt this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is \u200cnot believed to be suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">British media said Brandram was a grandson of princess Katherine \u200bof Greece and Denmark, served in the \u200bBritish military and had also worked at HSBC\u2019s private banking branch. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man suspected of being the \u201cPutney \u200cPusher\u201d, who knocked a woman into the path of an oncoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,99,43,40,38,41,39,1577],"class_list":["post-626860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-london","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}