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 chose not to attend the trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
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 boy survived with devastating injuries, including multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain.
Bravery’s most 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 while restraining Bravery after he climbed on to a window ledge and tried to throw himself off.
His sentence will run concurrently with the minimum 15-year term he received for trying to murder the boy.
However, the judge said it was “very unlikely” Bravery would be freed “unless something significant changes”.
It’s not the first time he’s 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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