The Court of Appeal is set to hear a plea to be moved from prison to hospital by a teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern.
Jonty Bravery was jailed in June for throwing the child from the 10th-storey balcony of the London art gallery on August 4 last year and is currently serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years for attempted murder.
The victim, who was on holiday with his parents in the capital from France, survived the 100ft plunge, but suffered life-changing injuries, including a bleed on the brain and multiple broken bones.
The boy cannot be identified because of his age.
Bravery’s appeal will be heard on Wednesday by Dame Victoria Sharp, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, sitting with Mr Justice Edis and Mrs Justice Yip, starting at 10.30am.
Bravery, who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, was under the care of Hammersmith and Fulham social services at the time of the attack.
He had been allowed out from his supported accommodation unsupervised despite a history of lashing out at staff, his sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey was told in June.
