Suspect in ‘Putney pusher’ case told family that investigation was ‘murdering him’

Brandram was arrested in June on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm, nine years after a jogger shoved a woman into the path of a bus in London. Photograph: Family handout/PA

Days before Nicholas Brandram, the man suspected of being the “Putney pusher”, killed himself, he told his family that the police investigation was “murdering him”.

He had “no fight left” in him, he told his sisters, Alexia Hicks and Sophie Voelcker, and could not see an end to the Metropolitan police investigation, or the online abuse.