Coroner pauses inquest into death of man linked to 2017 Putney Bridge incident

At a hearing in West London Coroner's Court, officials were informed that Nicholas Brandram, 44, was found dead in an upstairs room of his Chiswick residence on the evening of 15 September after failing to attend a planned family meal. Brandram had been arrested in June on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm related to a 2017 incident on Putney Bridge in which a jogger shoved a woman into the road. Coroner Melanie Lee opened the inquest, offered condolences to Brandram’s sisters Sophie Voelcker and Alexia Hicks, and then adjourned the proceeding while awaiting the outcome of a referral to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.

Paramedics attempted resuscitation but he was pronounced dead shortly before 21:00 BST. Police described the death as unsuspicious with no third-party involvement. Brandram’s family maintains he was not the jogger known as the “Putney Pusher” and blames the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the case for his demise.