Lags vow: We will kill Tate pusher
He’ll be hunted down, say Facebook convicts
CHILLING threats have been made against the teenager who hurled a child from an art gallery viewing platform.
Jonty Bravery was sentenced to 15 years in jail for his attack on a six-year-old boy at Tate Modern.
Now a prisoner using a closed Facebook group has urged: “Let’s do the f***ing same to him.”
Another con said: “They got to Ian Huntley and Peter Sutcliffe”.
One inmate even suggested that Bravery, 18, would not get protection from officers at top-security HMP Belmarsh in southeast London.
They wrote: “Even the screws hate them sorta cons.”
A judge warned Bravery – who has a mental disorder – may never be freed.
He was on bail for assaulting and racially abusing his carer at the time he hurled a French boy off the viewing platform at Bankside in London last summer.
His victim survived the 100ft fall, but suffered life-changing injuries including a bleed on the brain and broken bones. He remains in a wheelchair.
Sentencing Bravery, of Ealing, west London, Old Bailey judge Mrs Justice McGowan said of his victim: “The fear he must have experienced and the horror his parents felt are beyond imagination. You had intended to kill someone that day – you almost killed that sixyear-old boy.”
She said that Bravery’s autism spectrum disorder did not explain the attack, and acknowledged expert evidence that he presents “a grave and immediate risk to the public”.
The judge added: “You will spend the greater part, if not all, of your life detained... you may never be released.”
After his arrest on August 4 last year, Bravery told police how he travelled to the gallery with the intention of hurting someone so he could be on TV that evening.
He said: “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.”
Bravery claimed he had heard voices telling him that he had to hurt or kill people and wanted to prove a point “to every idiot” who said he didn’t have mental health issues.
It was previously reported that he had been sent to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
The Ministry of Justice declined to comment.