Jonty Bravery ‘not considered risk’ before Tate attack despite multiple assaults, report finds

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On 4 August 2019, Jonty Bravery, then aged 17, told supervisors at his care home he was going to visit a local shopping centre but instead travelled to the central London art gallery where, after lying in wait, he hurled a young French tourist from the viewing platform. Witnesses claimed Bravery quickly blamed social services for what he had done but carers of his, who have largely remained anonymous, told reporters at the time it was a “tragedy waiting to happen”. In an audio file, allegedly recorded by one of his carers and used at his trial, Bravery revealed his plan months earlier, saying he wanted to visit a tall landmark in central London as if it was a “normal day” and then “push somebody off it”, according to reports in the Mirror. The review into Bravery, seen only by the PA news agency so far, is said to reveal a string of violent incidents in the two years before his Tate attack, as well as other examples of troubling behaviour including putting faeces in his mother’s make-up brushes and threatening to kill members of the public.