A man who received a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old boy off a tenth-floor balcony at the Tate Modern is facing new charges for assaulting two nurses at a high-security psychiatric hospital where he is detained.
Jonty Bravery, aged 24, attacked two nurses at Broadmoor Hospital in September 2024. He kicked one nurse in the thigh and scratched at the face of another, causing her to bleed. Bravery was found guilty of these assaults at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in November and is awaiting sentencing.
During the trial, it was revealed that Bravery requires constant monitoring by three staff members and is confined to a room with only a mattress.
Bravery had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment after throwing a boy from the Tate Modern balcony in 2019, resulting in severe injuries including a brain bleed and multiple fractures for the young victim.
In another incident in 2020, Bravery was jailed for 14 weeks for assaulting staff at Broadmoor Hospital. He attacked a nursing assistant by punching her and pulling her hair, and also bit a rehabilitation therapist assistant who came to her aid.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring, upon finding Bravery guilty of the recent assaults, stated that he had crossed a line with his actions. The nurses involved described the harrowing ordeal they faced during the attacks, highlighting the stressful and dangerous nature of their work at the hospital.