Detectives in Tower Hamlets have today, Tuesday 25 August, released startling CCTV footage of a man attacking a female cyclist in Whitechapel. Police were called to reports of a female cyclist assaulted on Sidney Street, off Whitechapel Road shortly after 18:00hrs on Friday, 1 May. As the cyclist - a woman in her early 40s turned onto Sydney Street from Whitechapel Road, she passed a man who was about to cross the road. She politely asked him not to cross until she had cycled past. The man swore at her and chased her down the street. As she slowed down near a road junction, the man, who is believed to be in his 40s and was wearing dark clothing, approached her again, shouted at her and then pushed her off her bike into the path of passing traffic