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British justice sentenced Friday to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 15 years, an 18 year old young man suffering from psychiatric disorders who had thrown last August a French child of six years from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern museum, in London.
Jonty Bravery, 17 at the time of the crime, had pleaded guilty in December to attempted murder, and the Old Bailey’s criminal court had to decide to send him either to a specialized hospital or, as he chose, in prison.
In her motivations, Justice Maura McGowan underlined the premeditation and the dangerousness of the accused. She stressed the gravity of the injuries suffered by the victim, whose life “will never be the same again”, as well as the need to protect the public from the dangerousness of the accused. In videoconference from the Broadmoor High Security Hospital (south of England), he showed no particular emotion at the sentencing.
On August 4, 2019, Jonty Bravery had pushed the child, then six years old, over the railing of the observation platform of the museum of modern art located on the south bank of the Thames. The young boy had fallen on a roof of the fifth floor, thirty meters below. He suffered a brain hemorrhage and multiple fractures, in the spine, legs and arms.
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