Jonty Bravery, who is understood to have slipped away from his carers, was seen on CCTV footage peering over the edge of the tenth-floor platform at the Tate Modern before singling out the boy and throwing him over the side.
Bravery, who has since admitted attempted murder, told police he had planned the incident for a long time to highlight how unhappy he was with the care he had received.
The teenager, from Ealing, was 17 at the time of the attack but has been named in the media as reporting restrictions no longer apply to him as he has now turned 18.
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