Tate Modern attacker sentenced for nurse assaults

A man who was already serving a life prison term for throwing a six-year-old off the Tate Modern has been sentenced for assaulting two nurses at Broadmoor Hospital.

Jonty Bravery, 24, kicked one of the women in the thigh and "clawed" at the face of a second, leaving her with blood dripping down her cheek.

Bravery was given a life sentence for hurling a French boy from the London art gallery's 10th storey balcony in 2019 and is being held at the high security hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

He was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court to 16 weeks in jail after being found guilty in his absence last November. The sentence will run concurrently with his existing 15-year minimum term.

Passing sentence, Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring, who had found Bravery guilty of two counts of assault, said those who care for Bravery were the targets of his assaults.

Goldspring found he had assaulted Linda McKinlay and Kate Mastalerz in September 2024.

The defendant refused to appear at the hearing via video link.

Jessica Hart, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "This was a violent and distressing incident for the nurses who were simply doing their jobs. No one should ever face this kind of aggression while providing care."

In 2020, Bravery was handed a 14-week jail sentence after he admitted attacking two other Broadmoor staff.