Boy, 7, thrown off Tate Modern last year has started to walk again
Jonty Bravery, who is now 19, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for the boy's attempted murder.
A young tourist who was hurled from a 10th-storey balcony at Tate Modern last August has started to walk again with the help of a cane.
The boy’s family, who live in France, have revealed his condition has improved and he has been trying to sing.
His medication has been lowered and he is now feeling less pain.
Jonty Bravery, now aged 19, was jailed for at least 15 years in June after admitting attempted murder of the boy.
A statement from the family of the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: ‘Our son’s memory is once again greatly affected. He no longer remembers what he did that day or what day it is.
‘Despite everything, he continues to make efforts and progress: he begins to walk with a tetrapod cane while we hold him by the back of the coat for balance.
‘He also has less pain, so the doctors were able to lower his medication.
‘He tries to do more and more things with his left arm like holding his tube of toothpaste or his glasses case to close it.’
He is also starting to speak word by word instead of syllable by syllable.
‘He tries to sing and make up songs with rhymes,’ the statement added.
‘He was able to start using the blowpipe with the rehabilitators to continue improving his breathing.’
The family said he is no longer allowed to go home on weekends, so family members spend seven days a week in hospital, adding that spending every night there ‘is very tiring because of the noise, and also very disturbing’.
They added they are ‘impatiently awaiting’ the return of weekend leaves and visits because he misses his grandparents and his friends.
In September, the family announced the boy could stand unaided, telling well-wishers in a statement: ‘We are already seeing new progress: he can at last stand on his legs without any help or support.’
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