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<\/p>\nA man who threw a boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern gallery has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses.<\/p>\n
Jonty Bravery kicked one nurse at Broadmoor Hospital in the thigh and “clawed” at the face of the other, drawing blood, in September 2024.<\/p>\n
He was convicted in November but didn’t attend the trial and refused to appear via video link at today’s sentencing.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\n The incident happened at Broadmoor, in Berkshire. File pic: iStock<\/p>\n
The boy survived with devastating injuries, including multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Footage trying to restrain Bravery on the floor before other staff rushed in to help, with one shouting “Jesus Christ do something”.<\/p>\n
“He attacked my face, he was clawing at my face. My eye and my face were all scratched,” Ms McKinlay told the court.<\/p>\n
“In the aftermath I was very shaken. In all my years of being in Broadmoor I’ve never been attacked.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\n The six-year-old was thrown from a balcony at the Tate Modern in 2019. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
Bravery’s sentence will run concurrently with the minimum 15-year term he received for attempted murder.<\/p>\n
However, the judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said it was “very unlikely” he would be freed “unless something significant changes”.<\/p>\n
It’s not the first time Bravery has assaulted staff at Broadmoor.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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