Putney Bridge Suspect Found Dead Before Case Was Resolved
Nicholas Brandram, 44, the man arrested in June on suspicion of being the jogger who pushed a woman toward an oncoming bus on Putney Bridge in 2017, was found dead at his home in Chiswick, west London. The Guardian
Metropolitan Police officers and the London Ambulance Service attended an address in Chiswick, in the London borough of Hounslow, at 19:12 on Tuesday, 15 September, after a man was found unresponsive inside. The 44-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin were informed.
Police said the death is being treated as unexpected but not believed to be suspicious. A file will be prepared for the coroner, the official who examines unexplained deaths.
The June arrest concerned the 2017 incident on Putney Bridge in which a jogger shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. She avoided serious injury after the bus driver swerved around her. CCTV footage of the shove circulated widely and went viral. Yahoo News
Brandram was arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm, meaning an attempt to cause very serious injury. He was released on bail in June. He answered bail in September and was re-bailed with no conditions.
That arrest had revived a case left unsolved for years. The Metropolitan Police wound down its Putney pusher investigation in 2018 after interviewing 50 men and arresting three suspects. No charge resolved the inquiry at that time.
Brandram was a director at HSBC and had served in the military, reaching the rank of captain. In a March 2026 interview he described his role as senior relationship manager at HSBC Private Bank. He described himself as a co-parenting single father with a three-year-old child. He said his proudest professional achievement was being invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party after military service in Afghanistan. Court history also formed part of the public record. He was convicted of crashing his Harley-Davidson motorbike into a female cyclist around Hyde Park Corner and driving off without leaving his details.
The broader context here is why this case stayed in public memory after the formal investigation closed. The viral video gave the 2017 shove a continued presence that most alleged serious assaults never acquire, like a file that never quite returns to the shelf. That visibility helps explain why the June arrest, nine years after the event, drew immediate national attention, and why the suspect's death now leaves the legal questions untested. Identification is not the same as a court decision. With the coronial process as the remaining formal step, questions of evidence and charging thresholds will stay unanswered.
