A teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor balcony at London's Tate Modern has been jailed for at least 15 years.
Jonty Bravery, 18, of Northolt, planned an attack and targeted young children last August, the prosecution said.
The victim suffered a bleed to the brain, fractures to his spine and has been left with life-changing injuries.
At the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice McGowan said Bravery intended to kill and "almost killed that six-year-old boy".
"That little boy has suffered permanent and life-changing injury," the judge said in her sentencing remarks after Bravery had admitted attempted murder.
"You went to the viewing platform, looked around and spotted the victim and his family and went to the boy and threw him over the railing.
"The fear he must have experienced and the horror his parents felt are beyond imagination.
"What you did on the day of this offence proves you are a grave danger to the public. You planned this and appeared to revel in the notoriety."
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