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British police arrest 50-year-old jogger suspected of knocking woman in front of bus

British police on Thursday said they had arrested a 50-year-old jogger on suspicion of knocking a woman into the path of a bus on a busy west London street earlier this year. 

Closed circuit TV footage showed the male runner knocking a 33-year-old woman head-first in front of a bus, which just managed to swerve out of her way. 

"Police investigating an assault after a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney have made an arrest," London police said in a statement. 

The man is being held on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after an arrest in the nearby Chelsea area of London, police said. The victim received minor injuries from the incident. 

The arrest came after a public appeal earlier the week for help in tracing the jogger. Although the incident happened in May, police said they had received a "good response" from the appeal, and said they were still looking for other witnesses.


Source: Reuters

1 comment:

  1. I've been jogging for many years. More than inclement weather, what irritates, frustrates joggers are entitlement walkers – walkers with an attitude. From a distance, in twos, threes and fours abreast, they see you coming but they will not move to let you pass by. They insist on holding their ground, or pretend they don't see you. Sometimes they force you off the path. There have been occasions when I have been stopped dead in my tracks, as if met by a wall. On each and every occasion it's the same face of resentment for you doing what they know they should be doing: exercising, losing weight. In their own fashion, they are giving you the finger. In Freud-speak, they are transferring their self-loathing onto you.
    I have studied both the video and the Gazette photo. Notice where the woman is walking: not in the area designated for walkers -- let's call it the sidewalk -- but on what looks like a biking and/or jogging path. Which begs the question, what is she doing there and why? She saw him coming, why didn’t she move?
    Did this woman, possibly self-centered and/or full of resentment or perhaps the worst of both worlds, deserve to be thrown in front of a bus? No, but there is more to the collision than meets the eye. Had there been no bus, I propose the facts would find them equally culpable.

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