6 Year old boy thrown 5 floors from Tate Modern Museum in London by 17 year old boy

Chris Wilson said:
That reminds me, there is an interesting sounding program on BBC4 tomorrow night at 9.00 PM on eugenics.
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:eek::D (just saw that, shouldn't laugh at that but... it is Chris Wilson and it is what I'd expect Chris Wilson to say)


Anyway, update from the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50692100

A teenager said he threw a boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London because he wanted to be on the TV news.

The six-year-old boy was visiting London from France with his family when Jonty Bravery, 18, threw him from a viewing platform on 4 August.

The boy suffered a bleed to the brain in the five-storey fall. His injuries have been described as life-changing.

Bravery, from Ealing, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in February.

After his arrest he told police he planned in advance to hurt someone at the South Bank gallery, to highlight his autism treatment on TV.

The court heard Bravery had approached a member of Tate Modern staff, saying: "I think I've murdered someone, I've just thrown someone off the balcony."

In his police interview, Bravery said he had to prove a point "to every idiot" who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.

"I wanted to be on the news, who I am and why I did it, so when it is official no-one can say anything else."

The court heard Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, had been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October.
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Also re: the point made earlier:

Malevolence said:
He should just claim it was an art installation highlighting the fragility of youth, he'd get off scot-free and most likely be in with a shout for a Turner Prize. Although is anyone taking bets on when autism or assburgers will be blamed?
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Rainmaker said:
The kid's not normal, agreed. That doesn't mean it's anything to do with ASD, Asperger's, PDD-NOS or anything else of the sort. 'Ah he's nuts he's probably gonna go Autistic' is a stereotypical brush that does no favours to anyone.
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I'd not have taken that bet!

dowie said:
Myself and the other poster might be quite cynical here but this kid wasn’t normal, conditions like that are rather broad to the point where plenty of people who think they have it and actually bother to get tested will get a diagnosis. It is cited sometimes in extradition hearings etc... It wouldn’t surprise me at all, if this kid doesn’t already have some other diagnosed conditions, if autism gets mentioned at the later trial.
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Just to be clear though - not being cynical re: kids with autism being psychos but rather the other way around, psychos having autism and odd/weird types who get accused of serious crimes later getting a diagnosis.
 
Malevolence said:
I've read the story, and there's no mention of any wranglers accompanying him at all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50692100 I was going by this comment -
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The two carers thing was mentioned in the highly respected UK newspaper of record here (quoting another highly respected newspaper), closer to the time of the event:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...gent-mental-patient-slipped-away-minders.html

A former carer who worked with the young man, told The Sun: 'He's one of the most difficult and challenging mental patients I've ever encountered.

'He suffers from schizophrenia and has a tendency towards violence. He is stockily built — about 5ft 10in tall — and gets angry when he is denied something that he wants or is told what to do. He's not allowed out unless accompanied by at least two support staff.

'He's also scarily intelligent. I watched an edition of the TV quiz show The Chase with him once and he answered every single question correctly.

'Something must have gone seriously wrong at the Tate because he's not allowed out unless accompanied by at least two support staff. There will have to be a serious inquiry into what he was doing there.'
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