A man who threw a boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern gallery has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses.
Jonty Bravery kicked one nurse at Broadmoor Hospital in the thigh and “clawed” at the face of the other, drawing blood, in September 2024.
He was convicted in November but didn’t attend the trial and refused to appear via video link at today’s sentencing.
The 24-year-old was previously given a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old French boy from the 10th floor of London’s Tate Modern in 2019.
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The incident happened at Broadmoor, in Berkshire. File pic: iStock
The boy survived with devastating injuries, including multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain.
Bravery’s recent trial heard three staff at the psychiatric hospital monitor him “24 hours a day, seven days a week” and his room only contains a mattress.
Prosecutors said the nurses, Kate Mastalerz and Linda McKinlay, were attacked in September 2024 after he tried to climb onto a window ledge in his cell.
Footage trying to restrain Bravery on the floor before other staff rushed in to help, with one shouting “Jesus Christ do something”.
“He attacked my face, he was clawing at my face. My eye and my face were all scratched,” Ms McKinlay told the court.
“In the aftermath I was very shaken. In all my years of being in Broadmoor I’ve never been attacked.”
She said Bravery had tried to throw himself off the window sill before and was “screaming and shouting and kicking” as they tried to coax him down.
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The six-year-old was thrown from a balcony at the Tate Modern in 2019. Pic: PA
Bravery’s sentence will run concurrently with the minimum 15-year term he received for attempted murder.
However, the judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said it was “very unlikely” he would be freed “unless something significant changes”.
It’s not the first time Bravery has assaulted staff at Broadmoor.
He was sentenced to 14 weeks in 2020 for punching a nursing assistant and pulling her hair, then biting the finger of a colleague who came to help.
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The boy Bravery threw off the Tate Modern spent months in intensive care and is still on a long rehabilitation process.
However, his parents said in October their “little knight” was now able to run, jump and swim to some degree but still had “very limited” memory skills.
They also said they expected him to be immobilised for about two months after another operation early this year
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