Jonty Bravery, a 24-year-old man who was given a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old French boy from the 10th floor balcony at the Tate Modern in London, now faces an additional sentence for new charges.
Bravery was charged for—and recently found guilty of—assaulting two nurses in September 2024 at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital in the UK. He has been held at Broadmoor since being sentenced for the Tate attack in 2020. That year, he was handed another 14-week jail sentence for attacking two other staff members at Broadmoor.
The Westminster Magistrates’ Court sentenced Bravery this week to 16 weeks in jail for the assault, which will run concurrently with his current sentence, which has a minimum term of 15 years. Bravery refused to appear at the hearing.
“This was a violent and distressing incident for the nurses who were simply doing their jobs. No one should ever face this kind of aggression while providing care,” Jessica Hart of the Crown Prosecution Service told the BBC.
The Tate Modern attack left the boy with a brain bleed, a fractured spine, and other life-altering innjuries that have confined him to a wheelchair. The boy landed on a fifth floor balcony below, dropping 100 feet. During the court hearing, a prosecutor referenced a recording published by the BBC in which Bravery spoke about his plan to kill a year before the attack.
