The family of a boy who was thrown from a 10th-storey balcony at the Tate Modern seven years ago has said his recovery has taken a “sad step backwards” after surgery. The French child, who was six at the time of the 2019 attack, remains hospitalised in a rehabilitation centre and is still unable to walk.
In an update posted on a GoFundMe page on Tuesday, his family revealed that the youngster’s rehabilitation is “proving longer and more difficult than expected” following an operation in January. “He is still hospitalised in a rehabilitation centre because he is still unable to walk,” they said. “He has only been able to have weekend leave for the past three weeks, in a wheelchair, which frustrates him greatly: it feels like a sad step backward.”
The child, who sustained life-changing injuries including a bleed on the brain and multiple broken bones after a 100ft fall, is eager to return to a school they have “finally” found that is “perfectly suited to his needs”. His family said he made new friends there before his operation, and they “eagerly await his return”.
Jonty Bravery, then 17, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years. In January 2024, Bravery, now 24, was jailed for 16 weeks for assaulting two nurses at Broadmoor Hospital.
