Boy thrown from London’s Tate Modern gallery starting to walk again

The then-6-year-old boy who was thrown off a viewing platform at the Tate Modern museum in London last year is starting to walk with a cane.

The young boy, who has not been publicly named, is now able to walk with “a tetrapod cane while we hold him by the back of the coat for balance,” his family said in a statement Monday.

“He also has less pain, so the doctors were able to lower his medication,” the family wrote on a fundraising page.

The child, a French tourist, was tossed from the 10th-floor balcony in August 2019 by 17-year-old Jonty Bravery, who was sentenced in June to at least 15 years in prison.

Jonty Bravery threw the boy off the 10th floor in August 2019.
Jonty Bravery threw the boy off the 10th floor in August 2019.


Jonty Bravery threw the boy off the 10th floor in August 2019. (Yui Mok/)

The boy suffered “catastrophic injuries,” including a brain bleed and a number of fractured bones. His family said at the time that he has “many years of physical therapy ahead of him.”

Due to COVID-19 protocols, the boy is staying at the hospital full-time, rather than going back and forth from home.

“But spending every night in the hospital is very tiring because of the noise, and also very disturbing,” his family said. “Our son’s memory is once again greatly affected. He no longer remembers what he did that day or what day it is.”

His speech has also improved and he “tries to sing and make up songs with rhymes.”

“We are impatiently awaiting the reopening of the balneotherapy center, the return of weekend leaves and visits because he misses his grandparents and his friends,” his family wrote.

Advertisement