A carer of teenager Jonty Bravery who threw a child off a balcony at the Tate Modern has said the shocking incident was a "tragedy waiting to happen".
The 18-year-old, from Ealing, had snatched the six-year-old French boy from his mother's arms in front of onlookers last year at the London gallery before hurling him 100 feet off a viewing platform.
Bravery had apparently revealed his disturbing plan months earlier, with then carers allegedly recording him explaining how he had "got it in my head, a way to kill somebody...and I know for a fact they'll die from falling from the hundred feet".
He also reportedly told them: "It could be the Shard, it could be anything... as long as it's a high thing. And we could go up and visit it, and then push one of... push somebody off it."
The Daily Mail reports one carer said they and their colleagues were instructed "never say no to him" because he had a habit of turning aggressive, with Bravery on bail after an arrest on suspicion of numerous assaults.
He had apparently made the confession in a row over having his iPad taken off him, claiming if he got it back he would not go through with his warped plan.
The victim of Bravery's attack on August 4 last year was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition with fractures to his spine, legs and arms and a bleed on the brain.
The boy, who was on holiday with his family, remains severely disabled in hospital.
Bravery, who was 17 at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to attempted murder in December with the recording emerging ahead of his sentencing.
In the audio, Bravery allegedly outlines his plot to go visit a tall landmark in central London as if it's a "normal day" and then "push somebody off it".
He told his carers he wanted to kill someone because it meant he would go to prison, which would be better than being in council care.
Bravery suffers from autism, OCD and a personality disorder and had been taken into care in 2017 because he was too much for his family to cope with.
As a result, he was put in a flat in Northolt, west London, where a team of half a dozen carers from Spencer and Arlington, working in pairs, watched over him 24/7. Though he was alone when he visited the Tate Modern.
The private care provider had been subcontracted by Hammersmith and Fulham council.
But carers told the Mail they were helpless to confront him, including when he stole from shops or overslept, in part due to how volatile he was, which added to an already imposing physical frame.
Bravery had first admitted his desire to throw someone from a tall building to a carer in autumn 2018, before he repeated it to another and it was decided to record his confession.
One carer, speaking to the Mail, claimed he told a more senior colleague about the tape and said he even played it to another of Bravery's carers - though they both deny this.
Spencer and Arlington has also denied ever knowing about the existence of the tape or Bravery's confession that he wished to commit such a hideous act.
In a statement, the company said: "We will continue to co-operate openly and with complete transparency with the serious case review and await its conclusions. We are confident the full facts will emerge from this process.
"We believe we have acted entirely properly in managing and reporting the provision of care for Jonty Bravery.
"However, with regards to the entirely speculative claim put to us that Jonty may have told carers of his plans, there is absolutely no evidence of this and nor is there any mention of this recorded in any care plan, case report or review from managers or from his carers, psychologists, or health workers reporting to us."
However, it went on to say the claims had now been reported to the care watchdog as well as an independent serious case review.
Hammersmith and Fulham council said: "Our sympathies go out to the child and his family following what happened at Tate Modern.
"An independent serious case review is now under way. It will look at what happened and the role played by all the different agencies involved."
Bravery had been allowed out on his own on August 4 when he visited the Tate Modern, which includes a ten-storey-high observation deck.
One of his carers told the Mail he believed that Bravery would follow through with his threats "because Jonty is the kind of person who, if he says he will do something, he will do it".
He added: "This was a tragedy waiting to happen. I genuinely thought he was going to do it."
The carer said the offender "could be nice" but was "highly manipulative".
"You can’t say no to Jonty. It was written in his care plan," he continued. "If you say no, it will trigger him to do the complete opposite of what you told him not to do. It would aggressively work him up, and the situation would get more out of hand."
Bravery was born on October 2, 2001, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in West London and initially lived in a £1.8million house in Parsons Green with his parents.
His dad Piers Bravery, 53, a company director who runs a printing firm, had passionately campaigned for more help for children with autism, raising funds for a special needs centre that had helped his son.
In 2017, Bravery was sectioned under the Mental Health Act aged 16 and spent six weeks in a mental health facility before being allowed to live semi-independently in a flat.
His carers took his iPad off him when he used the internet to try and stalk his family, and he had apparently made it his "number one priority" to get out of care and back to them.
