12 August, 2017
"Eric Bellquist, who was arrested yesterday in relation to an assault that took place on #PutneyBridge has been wrongly implicated", the law firm has written on Twitter.
Eric Bellquist, an American investment banker and a partner at a private equity firm in London, has been arrested in connection with a frightening attack that saw a woman shoved into the path of an oncoming bus.
Video footage from May 5 showed a male jogger knocking the 33-year-old woman onto the road as she walked across Putney Bridge on the River Thames.
According to Thursday's police statement, the bus stopped and some passengers got off to help the victim. Fortunately, the bus swerved and narrowly avoided the woman.
The woman tried to speak to the man when he ran across the other side of the bridge 15 minutes later but he failed to acknowledge her, police said.
Bellquist's lawyers say they have proof the 41-year-old could not have been the jogger on Putney Bridge.
Officers received "a good response" from the public after releasing the footage, police said.
Mr Bellquist, a top boss at the Wagamama and Byron restaurant chains, says he has "irrefutable proof" he was in the United States at the time of the incident, which took place at 7.40am on May 5.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident and Bellquist's lawyers added they expect a "swift resolution to this wholly untrue allegation".
The man, a private equity firm partner, says he has "irrefutable proof" he was actually in the U.S. at the time, the BBC reports.
Sergeant Mat Knowles says it is thanks to the "superb quick reactions of the bus driver" that she was not hit.
