Court upholds Jonty Bravery’s 15-year minimum term for throwing boy, six, from balcony

Jonty Bravery, the teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a viewing platform at the Tate Modern, has had his appeal against his 15-year minimum term for attempted murder dismissed.

Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Mr Justice Edis and Mrs Justice Yip at the court of appeal, said: “We are satisfied that, in arriving at the minimum term of 15 years for this offence, the judge did not impose a sentence that was either manifestly excessive or wrong in principle.”

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