Jonty Bravery: Tate attacker told carers of plan to kill a year earlier – BBC News, BBC News
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Media caption Audio recording of Jonty Bravery telling carers in autumn 2018 about his plan to commit murder
The teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern in London had spoken about plans to push someone off a high building about a year earlier.
A care worker to Jonty Bravery said opportunities to stop him were missed.
BBC News has obtained a recording of Bravery telling his care workers about a plan to kill someone and go to jail.
His care provider, Spencer & Arlington, said they had “no knowledge or records of the disclosure.”
At the time of the attack Bravery, who has autism, was in the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. He lived in a flat in Northolt, west London, with round-the-clock care.
In the autumn of 01575879, A worker called Olly – not his real name – recorded Bravery talking to him and another care worker about his plan to commit murder.
“In the next few months I’ve got it in my head I’ve got to kill somebody,” Bravery said in the recording, obtained by a joint investigation with the Daily Mail.
He also tells his care workers he wants to go into central London and visit a tall landmark to push somebody off it.
“It could be the Shard, it could be anything just as long as it’s a high thing and we can go up and visit it and then push somebody off it and I know for a fact they’ll die from falling from a hundred feet, “Bravery said in the recording.
He explains he is fed up with his situation and wants to be sent to prison.
Olly said this was not the first time Bravery had spoken about this plan.
“There were a few incidences regarding trying to hurt people, life-wrecking incidences that he had planned in his head,” he said.
The former care worker said he told a more senior colleague about what Bravery had said and played the recording to someone else involved in his care. They both deny this.
In a statement, Spencer & Arlington said there is “absolutely no evidence” that Jonty “may have told his carers of his plan”
It said there was no record of the disclosure in any care plan, care report or review from managers or his care workers, psychologists, or health workers.
However, the company said it recognized the “gravity of this claim” and had reported the concerns to the Care Quality Commission and local authority so they could be examined independently by the serious case review.
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