Jonty Bravery: Man who threw boy off Tate Modern balcony to be sentenced for Broadmoor staff attack
A man who threw a six-year-old boy off the balcony of Tate Modern will be sentenced to prison for attacking two nurses.
Jonty Bravery, 24, was convicted of assaulting nurses Linda McKinlay and Kate Mastalerz at Broadmoor Hospital in September 2024.
He kicked one in the buttocks and “clawed” the other in the face, causing blood to drip from his cheek.
Courage will be punished on Thursday. He chose not to attend his hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in November.
He was previously jailed for life in 2019 for throwing a French boy from a 10th-floor balcony at the Tate Modern and is currently being held at Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.
The boy survived the 100-foot fall but suffered life-changing injuries, including a brain hemorrhage and multiple broken bones.
It was heard that Bravery, who is on trial for attacking nurses, had to be monitored “24 hours a day, seven days a week” by three staff and was kept in a room with only a mattress.
Prosecutor Tom Heslop told the court about the attack: “At around 9.30pm Mr Bravery wanted to go to the toilet.
“After using the toilet, he climbed onto a ledge and tried to throw himself off.”
Mr Heslop said nurses tried to restrain him by placing him on his bed before laying him on his back.
The court heard Bravery “kicked towards Ms Mastalerz”, striking her in the thigh and “clawing” at Ms McKinlay’s face, leaving blood dripping from her cheek.
Body footage played at the hearing showed nurses struggling with Bravery on the floor before other staff rushed into the room to help.
A panicked staff member can be heard shouting, “For Christ’s sake, do something.”
Miss McKinlay told the court this was the first time she had been attacked at Broadmoor in her long career.
“Jonty climbed to get on the windowsill,” he said, adding that Bravery had done the same thing before to harm himself.
“We were trying to convince Jonty. We didn’t want him to hurt himself,” he continued.
“He was screaming, yelling and kicking. We shouted for help.”
When asked if she was injured, the grandmother said: “He attacked my face, he was scratching my face.
“My eyes and face were scratched.
“I was very shaken afterward. I’ve never been attacked in all the years I’ve been at Broadmoor.”
Ms. McKinlay was taken to hospital for treatment.
Fellow nurse Ms Mastalerz said she started “screaming for help” when Bravery started kicking and scratching.
He had bruising on his thigh and said it was a “very stressful situation.”
Finding him guilty of both charges, Chief Justice Paul Goldspring said Bravery had “gone too far”.
In 2020, Bravery was jailed for a further 14 weeks after admitting assaulting staff at Broadmoor Hospital.
He punched nursing assistant Sarah Edwards in the head and face before pulling her hair, and bit rehabilitation therapist assistant Maxwell King on the finger after he came to his colleague’s aid.
