A man serving a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old boy from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses at a high-security psychiatric hospital.
Jonty Bravery, 24, was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court for assaulting nurses Kate Mastalerz and Linda McKinlay at Broadmoor Hospital in September 2024. The sentence will run concurrently with the minimum 15-year term he is already serving for attempted murder.
According to prosecutors, the incident occurred when Bravery attempted to climb onto a window ledge in his cell. During efforts to restrain him, he kicked Ms Mastalerz in the thigh and clawed at Ms McKinlay’s face, drawing blood.
Ms McKinlay told the court: “He attacked my face, he was clawing at my face. My eye and my face were all scratched.” She added: “In the aftermath I was very shaken. In all my years of being in Broadmoor I’ve never been attacked.”
The nurse noted that Bravery had previously tried to throw himself off the window sill and was “screaming and shouting and kicking” as staff attempted to coax him down. Footage of the incident showed the struggle before other staff rushed in, with one heard shouting “Jesus Christ do something”.
Bravery, who was convicted in November, did not attend his trial and refused a video link at sentencing. The judge stated it was “very unlikely” he would be freed “unless something significant changes”.
The court heard that three staff members at Broadmoor monitor Bravery “24 hours a day, seven days a week” and his room contains only a mattress.
This is not Bravery’s first assault on hospital staff. In 2020, he was sentenced to 14 weeks for punching a nursing assistant and pulling her hair, then biting the finger of a colleague who intervened.
Bravery was given a life sentence in 2019 for throwing a six-year-old French boy from the tenth floor of London’s Tate Modern. The child survived but sustained devastating injuries including multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain.
In an update on the victim’s recovery, his parents described their “little knight” as now able to run, jump and swim to some degree, but said he still has “very limited” memory skills. The boy spent months in intensive care and remains on a long rehabilitation process. His parents expected him to be immobilised for about two months following another operation early this year.
