Broadmoor patient sentenced for attacking nurses
A patient who is serving a life sentence for pushing a boy from a balcony at the Tate Modern has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses at Broadmoor Hospital.
Jonty Bravery, 24, assaulted the nurses at the secure hospital in Berkshire, leaving one with scratches to her face and the other with a bruised thigh.
The incident occurred on the evening of 30 September 2024 after Bravery, who had just been to the bathroom, tried to climb onto a ledge and throw himself from it.
Body-worn camera footage played in court showed him kicking and lashing out at the nurses as they tried to restrain him.
Jessica Hart from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “This was a violent and distressing incident for the nurses who were simply doing their jobs. No one should ever face this kind of aggression while providing care.
“Our case was supported by body-worn video showing the assault, alongside the nurses’ accounts and images of one nurse’s injuries. Bravery refused to attend his trial, but the strength of this evidence enabled us to secure a conviction in his absence.”
Bravery was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court having been found guilty of two counts of assault by beating following a trial at the same court on 27 November 2025.
Notes to editors
- Jonty Bravery’s date of birth is 2 October 2001.
- Jessica Hart is a Senior District Crown Prosecutor at CPS Thames and Chiltern which prosecutes criminal cases in Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.