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A British teenager admitted on Friday to throwing a six-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in London with the intention of killing him.
Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at the time of the incident, said he carried out the act because he wanted to be on the television news.
He pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder at London’s Old Bailey court on Friday, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement.
The victim, who was visiting Britain with his family, fell five floors and was found on a fifth-floor roof.

His mother was heard by witnesses screaming: “Where’s my son? Where’s my son?”
The boy survived but suffered a bleed to his brain and a number of fractured bones, the CPS said.
Bravery, who was arrested shortly afterwards, told police he had planned to hurt someone at the museum be on television, the CPS said. He was only named in the media in October after he turned 18.
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“This devastating and shocking incident at the Tate Modern on August 4 of this year changed the lives of Bravery’s young victim and his family forever,” prosecutor Emma Jones said. “The boy was singled out by Bravery who threw him from the viewing platform intending to kill him. That he survived the five-storey fall was extraordinary.”
He will be sentenced on February 17.
Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, has been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October, the BBC reported.

The victim’s family said the injured child still needed intensive rehabilitation and has not recovered mobility in all his limbs or cognitive capacities. He was constantly awoken by pain but could not communicate that, they said in a statement released by police.
“Life stopped for us four months ago. We don’t know when, or even if, we will be able to return to work, or return to our home, which is not adapted for a wheelchair,” the family said.
“We are exhausted, we don’t know where this all leads, but we go on.”


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Teen who threw boy from London Tate Modern platform admits attempted murder, saying he wanted to be on TV

Jonty Bravery said he carried out the act because he wanted to be on the television news. Photo: Metropolitan Police via AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 04, 2019 A general view shows the viewing platform of the Tate Modern gallery in London on August 4, 2019 after it was put on lock down and evacuated after an incident involving a child falling from height and being airlifted to hospital. - British teenager Jonty Bravery on December 6, 2019 pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a six-year-old French boy, who was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern art gallery. (Photo by Daniel SORABJI / AFP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 14, 2016 file photo, an exterior view shows a new building called the Switch House, at left, which has been added on to the Tate Modern gallery in London. A British teenager pleaded guilty Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 to attempted murder for throwing a 6-year-old French boy from the 10th-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery.(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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A general view shows the Tate Modern gallery on the southern bank of the River Thames in London on August 4, 2019 after it was put on lock down and evacuated after an incident involving a child falling from height and being airlifted to hospital. - London's Tate Modern gallery was evacuated on Sunday after a child fell "from a height" and was airlifted to hospital. A teenager was arrested over the incident, police said, without giving any details of the child's condition. (Photo by Daniel SORABJI / AFP)

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RNPS - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013 - Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama poses for a photograph inside her Infinity Mirrored Room installation titled "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" during a media preview of her new exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in New York November 7, 2013. The exhibition, titled "I Who Have Arrived in Heaven", features two mirrored rooms, a video installation and over 30 new large-scale paintings highlighting her unique amalgamation of representational and non-representational subject matter. The exhibition ran from November 8 to December 21. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY PROFILE TPX)

FBDTAE FILE PHOTO: Frances Morris has been announced today as the new Director of Tate Modern. She posed for these photos at Tate Modern in London, on February 9, 2010. © David Levenson/Alamy Live News photo / Alamy Stock Photo [16JUNE2016 FEATURES ARTS]

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Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at time of incident, will be sentenced in February
Six-year-old victim survived fall, but suffered head injury and number of fractured bones and has not completely recovered



Six-year-old victim survived fall, but suffered head injury and number of fractured bones and has not completely recovered.


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Teen who threw boy from London Tate Modern platform admits attempted murder, saying he wanted to be on TV

Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at time of incident, will be sentenced in February Six-year-old victim survived fall, but suffered head injury and number of fractured bones and has not completely recovered

Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at time of incident, will be sentenced in February

Six-year-old victim survived fall, but suffered head injury and number of fractured bones and has not completely recovered