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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
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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.
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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.

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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.

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