On August 4, 2019, Jonty Bravery pushed the then-six-year-old boy over the railing of the Museum of Modern Art observation deck. british court
On August 4, 2019, Jonty Bravery pushed the then-six-year-old boy over the railing of the Museum of Modern Art observation deck.
A British court on Friday sentenced an 18-year-old boy with mental disorders to life imprisonment for at least 15 years, who threw a six-year-old French boy onto the tenth floor of London’s Tate Modern museum last August. Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to attempted murder last December and the Old Bailey Assize Court had to decide whether to send him to a specialist hospital, as he chose, or go to prison.
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The president of the court considered in his reasons the premeditation and dangerousness of the accused. He highlighted the seriousness of the injuries sustained by the victim, whose life will never be the same again. “What you did and how you acted before and after the facts shows that you represent and continue to represent a serious danger to the public,” he emphasized.
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On August 4, 2019, Jonty Bravery pushed the then-six-year-old boy over the railing of the Museum of Modern Art observation deck, which sits on the south bank of the Thames. The young man fell on the roof of the fifth floor, thirty meters below. He had a brain hemorrhage and multiple fractures to his spine, legs and arms. “We don’t know if he’s going to make a full recovery,” prosecutor Deanna Heer said Thursday at the hearing, where the defendant appeared by video link from the high-security hospital in Broadmoor (south of England).
“Words are not enough to describe the horror” of the defendant’s actions
The defendant, who suffers from autism and personality disorder, was assisted by a specialized institution. With a violent demeanor, he had shown signs of improvement in the months leading up to the event, so he might benefit from being allowed to go where he could on his own, for a period of four hours. On the day of the crime, he first tried to buy a ticket to the observation deck of the Shard, the UK’s tallest skyscraper. But he did not have enough money. After asking him where to find the top of the nearby building, he headed over to the Tate Modern and its platform, which is open to the public.
Several witnesses described the strange behavior of the young man, who was heading towards the boy who was a little further away from his parents. Before realizing what had happened, the boy’s father believed the joke for a moment, thinking that there was a net underneath. “Yes, I’m crazy”, he told Jonty Bravery, in front of witnesses, amazed by his “big smile”, his raised arms, his “calmness” after his gesture, in the “chaos” that reigned. The public identified him and then arrested him.
This “shocking” response stems from the defendant’s mental disorder, his lawyer Philippa McAtasney said. Based on the evidence collected during the investigation, she explained that she heard voices telling them to hurt or kill people. Asked about the reasons for her gesture, she referred to a “long story”. “It’s not my fault,” she said, but the medical and social services that will take care of him. According to him, he had to be detained because he did not receive proper treatment.
In the statement read by the prosecutor at the hearing, the victim’s parents believe that “words are not enough to describe the horror” of the defendant’s actions. Living in uncertainty about what the future of his son will be, they fear that he will never be able to trust anyone and will follow every individual who is a foreign “threat.”
Date updated: June 26, 2020, 10:58 am
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn