A troubled British teenager who threw a six-year-old French boy from a viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery was on Friday jailed for life.
Judge Maura McGowan told Jonty Bravery, 18, he would spend at least 15 years in custody for attempting to murder the boy in front of horrified crowds on August 4 last year.The young victim, who cannot be identified because of his age, was hurled head first off the 10th floor gantry at the gallery and plunged 30 metres on to a fifth-floor roof below.
Psychiatrists said he also had psychopathic traits, although he had not been formally assessed for the condition. The court was told he had also indicated he would carry out such an attack, in a secret recording purported to have been made by his carers that was never shared.
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