Daily Express - 07.08.2019

16 Daily Express Wednesday, August 7, 2019

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Morgan, prosecuting, told

magistrates: “The boy was visiting

Tate Modern with his parents. They

were enjoying the views when the

boy moved a couple of feet away.”

Moments later, he was allegedly

thrown over the chest-high barrier

of the 10th-floor viewing deck,

plunging 100ft on to the fifth-floor

roof.

Parts of the terrifying drama were

caught on CCTV, the court heard.

A medical team from the air

ambulance treated the boy before

he was flown to hospital and put

into an intensive care unit.

Craig Crosbie, defending, made

no application for bail. Chairman of

the magistrates, David Armitage,

remanded the teenager to a youth

detention centre in west London.

Identification of both victim and

defendant was banned by the court.

Detectives have spoken to

witnesses but are urging others to

come forward.

Some told how the boy’s

distraught mother screamed: “My

son! My son!” in English after her

boy vanished over the balcony. The

youth was detained by members of

the public who held him until police

arrived. It is understood the

teenager was punched in the face

by one irate witness.

Crowds at the gallery on

London’s Southbank feared they

were caught up in a terrorist attack

and rushed towards the exits.

One woman recalled: “People

were screaming and shouting.”

Police described the incident as

“truly shocking”. Tate Modern, just

half a mile from the scene of the

2017 terror attack at London

Bridge and Borough Market, was

the most popular tourist attraction

in Britain last year, attracting

around six million visitors.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman

said: “The injured boy remains in a

stable, but critical condition in

hospital with his family,

who continue to be supported

by officers.”

● Anyone with information is urged

to contact police on 020 8721 4868

or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

By John Twomey

Terrifying

Screaming

A SIX-year-old boy allegedly
thrown from the 10th floor of
Tate Modern suffered a fractured
spine and a deep-brain bleed, a
court heard yesterday.
The child, who was on a trip to
London from his home in France,
also had his legs and arms broken.
He was still in a critical but stable
condition in hospital last night
following the horrific incident at the
London art gallery on Sunday
afternoon.
Details of his injuries were
revealed yesterday as a 17-year-old
youth appeared in court charged
with attempted murder.
The tall, bearded teenager, who
cannot be identified for legal
reasons, spoke only to confirm his
name, age, address and British
nationality.
Wearing a grey prison tracksuit,
he was remanded in custody after
the five-minute hearing at Bromley
magistrates’ court, south London.
He is due to appear at the Old
Bailey tomorrow. There will be a
further preliminary hearing at the
Old Bailey on August 22. Sian

Tate plunge horror:

in court as boy, six,

Tributes as author Toni

Morrison dies at age 88

TONI Morrison, the first African
American woman to win a Nobel
Prize, has died at 88.
She was the author of 11 novels as
well as children’s books and essay
collections.
Her book Beloved won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
Telling the story of a
runaway female slave it
was made into a film
starring Oprah Winfrey
in 1998.
Morrison, inset, was
awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1993.
The Swedish Academy
described her as an author
“who in novels characterised
by visionary force and poetic
import, gives life to an essential aspect
of American reality”.
She died on Monday night in New
York from complications of
pneumonia. Her family confirmed

“with profound sadness” she had died

“following a short illness”, adding that

she was an “extremely devoted

mother, grandmother, and

aunt”.

A publisher’s editor as

well as an author,

Morrison once said:

“We die. That may be

the meaning of life.

But we do language.

That may be the

measure of our lives.”

Paying tribute, her

long-time editor Robert

Gottlieb from Knopf

publishers said: “She was a

great woman and a great

writer, and I don’t know which I

will miss more.”

In 2012, President Obama presented

her with the Presidential Medal of

Freedom.

By Christopher Bucktin

Search

Police widen search

POLICE in Malaysia last

night extended their search

area in a desperate bid to

find missing 15-year-old

British girl Nora Quoirin.

As the huge hunt

continues, Nora’s family

have insisted she was

abducted against her will.

But local police chiefs

claim there is “no evidence

of foul play”.

Her father Seb said on

Facebook: “Our daughter

Nora has now been

missing for three days in

Seremban, one hour 30

minutes south of Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia.

“We believe she may

have been abducted and

we need your support to

help us find her.”

Search teams are being

Malaysian

fire and

rescue

teams

hunting

for Nora

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