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Man sentenced to prison for attacking nurses on duty
08th January, 2026 02:47 PM
A man who threw a boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern gallery has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses.
Jonty Bravery kicked one nurse at Broadmoor Hospital in the thigh and “clawed” at the face of the other, drawing blood, in September 2024.
He was convicted in November but didn’t attend the trial and refused to appear via video link at today’s sentencing.
The 24-year-old was previously given a life sentence for throwing a six-year-old French boy from the 10th floor of London’s Tate Modern in 2019.
The boy survived with devastating injuries, including multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain.
Bravery’s recent trial heard three staff at the psychiatric hospital monitor him “24 hours a day, seven days a week” and his room only contains a mattress.
Prosecutors said the nurses, Kate Mastalerz and Linda McKinlay, were attacked in September 2024 while restraining Bravery after he tried to throw himself off a window ledge in his cell.
Footage showed them struggling with Bravery on the floor before other staff rushed in to help, with one shouting “Jesus Christ do something”.
Ms McKinlay said it was the first time she had been attacked at Broadmoor in her long career.
“Jonty climbed up trying to get on to the windowsill,” she told the court, adding he had done the same thing before to try to harm himself.
“We were trying to coax Jonty down. We didn’t want him to hurt himself,” she continued. “He was screaming and shouting and kicking. We shouted for assistance.”
Bravery’s sentence will run concurrently with the minimum 15-year term he received for attempted murder.
However, the judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said it was “very unlikely” he would be freed “unless something significant changes”.
It’s not the first time Bravery has assaulted staff at Broadmoor.
He was sentenced to 14 weeks in 2020 for punching a nursing assistant and pulling her hair, then biting the finger of a colleague who came to help.
