A man who died after being pulled from the River Thames following a police Tasering on Chelsea Bridge has been named as Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore.

Sky News confirmed his identity with neighbours.

Police were called to Chelsea Bridge Road, in west London, on Saturday morning after receiving reports that a man was armed with a screwdriver and shouting.

The man was challenged by officers on the bridge and Tasered, but the Met Police said this “did not enable the officers to safely detain him”.

He then jumped into the river and was rescued by the RNLI and taken to hospital, but died on Saturday evening.

A watchdog is appealing for witnesses after the man’s death.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the interaction between two Metropolitan Police officers and the 41-year-old man, who lived locally.

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Social media footage showed one of the officers using a Taser on him a number of times, before the man, who lived locally, ran to the edge of Chelsea Bridge and appeared to jump over the railing shortly after 9am on Saturday.

On Monday, the watchdog said it was “appealing for witnesses to come forward as it investigates the interaction between Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers and a man who died after entering the River Thames from Chelsea Bridge”.

It also urged anyone with footage of any part of the incident to come forward.

The IOPC said its investigators had carried out a CCTV trawl, and had secured some mobile footage filmed on the bridge along with police body-worn video camera footage.

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