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Inquest Opens Into 12-Year-Old's Death
The coroner paused the case after being told of a police watchdog referral and said provisional post-mortem results showed ligature compression of the neck.
- On Tuesday, West London Coroner Melanie Lee suspended the inquest into banker Nicholas Brandram's death pending an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation into the Metropolitan Police's contact with him before his death.
- Brandram was arrested in June more than nine years after a jogger shoved a woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge in May 2017; his family insists he was innocent and believes the former army captain took his own life after police failed to formally clear his name.
- Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, sisters Alexia Hicks and Sophie Volker said he was 'failed' by police, claiming his mental state 'deteriorated' as the investigation continued and that leaks had 'scuppered' the investigation preventing a line-up.
- Chief Superintendent Dan Knowles said on Thursday the Metropolitan Police's investigation remains ongoing and acknowledged 'the strain that being subject to a police investigation can place on individuals and their families,' while Coroner Lee reported preliminary post-mortem results indicated death was 'due to ligature compression of the neck.'
- Coroner Lee clarified that an inquest is not a trial and 'nobody and no organisation is on trial,' while police determined the death was unsuspicious with 'no evidence of third-party involvement' in their preliminary assessment.
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Putney Pusher suspect found dead at home after missing family meal
The man arrested on suspicion of being the "Putney pusher" was found dead at his home after missing a family meal, an inquest has heard.Nicholas Brandram was arrested in June in connection with an incident on Putney Bridge in which a jogger shoved a woman headfirst into the path of an oncoming bus on May 5, 2017.The 44-year-old former banker was found unresponsive inside his West London home on Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, on September 15.Melanie L…
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