Yesterday it emerged that police in London had an individual in custody over an incident which occurred on London's Putney Bridge in May.

Footage of the incident was circulated across numerous media outlets in the UK and Ireland this week as police in the British capital appealed to the public to come forward with any information they may have pertaining to the incident.

The footage shows a male jogger passing a female pedestrian into the path of an oncoming bus as she approached him on the city bridge.

Eric Bellquist, who is understood to work at Hutton Collins LLP, insists he has been wrongly implicated in the incident which made numerous headlines this week, with lawyers for Bellquist stating that the allegations are 'wholly untrue.'

The law firm's Twitter feed this afternoon referred to Bellquist's arrest, and asserted that their client was in the United States at the time of the incident back in May.

1/3 Eric Bellquist, who was arrested yesterday in relation to an assault that took place on #PutneyBridge has been wrongly implicated

— Duncan Lewis (@DuncanLewis) August 11, 2017

2/3 He categorically denies being the individual concerned & has irrefutable proof that he was in the US at the time of the incident

— Duncan Lewis (@DuncanLewis) August 11, 2017

3/3 Consequently, we expect a swift resolution to this wholly untrue allegation.

— Duncan Lewis (@DuncanLewis) August 11, 2017

Speaking to the press this week, Duncan Lewis Solicitors said: "This statement is issued in relation to our client Mr. Eric Bellquist, who was arrested yesterday in relation to an assault that took place between a male jogger and a female pedestrian on the 5th May 2017 on Putney Bridge, London."

"Our client has been wrongly implicated in this matter; he categorically denies being the individual concerned and has irrefutable proof that he was in the United States at the time of the
incident."

"Consequently we expect a swift resolution to this wholly untrue allegation," they concluded.

According to reports, the individual in question has been released pending further investigations.