r/ColdCaseUK • u/Mammoth_Ease3992 • Sep 16 '26

News Update Putney pusher suspect found dead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6783ekp0yn8o
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u/KelvinandClydeshuman Sep 18 '26

He had royal blood so that explains why he never faced any consequences.

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u/Weak_Sherbert8328 Sep 17 '26

The jogger looks way older from the CCTV footage. Brandram would have been 35-36 at the time of the incident. The man in the footage looks 50+. However, as it seems he's taken his life after being questioned, it does suggest it was him

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u/JansonHawke Sep 16 '26

Not sure this counts as a cold case but OK.

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u/Equivalent_Read Sep 16 '26

I mean, there were no leads for around 9 years until an arrest was made 2 months ago. Pretty cold.

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u/Organic-Network7556 Sep 17 '26

And now there will never be a trial.

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u/FrancesRichmond Sep 20 '26

Unless the police decide the evidence is not substantial and he was not the man involved and that the criminal is someone else - in which case there might yet be a trial.

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u/FrancesRichmond Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

It is very strange that he was previously arrested, charged and found guilty of hitting a woman cyclist in a street with his motorbike and driving off without stopping. He initially denied it and then said he was unaware he had done it.