Tate Gallery yesterday

Oh I couldn't believe what I was reading travelsafar and felt sick to my stomach thinking about it.

The reports I have read make it seem as though members of the public tried to stop the boy (and detained him?) and that the 17 year old deliberately through the small boy over the barriers. I sincerely hope it was the other way around and that the elder boy was trying to save him.

Even testimony from ‘eye witnesses’ seem a bit vague.No doubt it will come out soon (what actually happened) certainly a shocking event though.

Not enough evidence for me to comment on one way or the other. We'll have to wait for the full story. Shocking as it is.

Ooopsie…….threw not through

I can't see the point in speculating about what happened when we clearly know nothing about it. This is a matter for the police and authorities.

Whatever the cause, a little boy has been badly hurt and I'm sure we all wish him a safe recovery.

At least the little boy is now stable and off the critical list.

I think that it's fairly clear what happened but the police will interview and do a thorough investigation, so best leave it to them.

Another parent who was there with her small child said the young man had been following them around and she had felt concerned.

That's good news, lemongrove

When we visited the barriers in the viewing gallery were about shoulder height to me at 5ft 5ins, even my 7 year old DGS, aka spiderman, would have been unable to climb them.

I have a terror of something like that. Like when you see an adult teasing a small child and pretending to drop them but the child squirms and the adult loses their grip. Stuff of nightmares!

An eye witness interviewee said the railings were shoulder height not waist height travelsofar
What you mean like a Michael Jackson Grammaretto
A very unusual and puzzling scenario I hope the little lad makes a full recovery but the shock will stay with him for ever I would think and with the mum poor lady, a dreadful and almost unexplainable thing to happen

DD, SIL and little Flynn were among those kept "locked down" for a couple of hours but in the main building.
I too felt sick that such a thing could happen however it happened.
TG the little boy is now said to be stable.

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tate-modern-incident-teenager-arrested-after-child-falls-from-height-at-central-london-gallery-a4205091.html

An horrific account of the incident. That poor mother and all those who witnessed it.

I think a 17 year old male has been charged with attempted murder.

Sorry arrested not charged, but that might have changed now after investigation.

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What an appalling post notentirelyallhere. Your name does you proud

FFS!

No, you're not entirely all here - I can't believe you've posted that

I agree with Nico97, an appalling post.

notentirelyallhere how insensitive!!!!

Oh dear that’s a huge judgement and really nonsense thing to say notentirelyallthere and is far from helpful
I can only think drugs or severe mental health will be the outcome no one in their right mind would ‘throw’ an unknown child over railings into the unknown unless they were very severely ill or ‘seeing’ things the fact that he didn’t even attempt to escape makes it even more puzzling and points to him being in some altered state I would have thought
Tragic totally tragic that poor family

neah You are blaming this terrible act of violence on people who voted to leave the EU?

Seriously?

Your post would be funny if it wasn't so ignorant and insulting.

Even if he makes a full physical recovery it is going to have an impact on him and his poor mother for a very long time.

If you have a shred of decency notentirelyallhere you would ask for your disgraceful post to be removed.