The moment a teenager threw a 15kg sofa from the top floor of an east London shopping centre was captured in newly-released CCTV footage.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, chucked the seat over a balcony at Westfield Stratford City on March 1 last year.
The incident went viral on social media, with a video captioned "no way bro almost killed someone".
The boy and a friend, 15, were arrested soon after.
The pair were prosecuted and our sister title London Now has reported new footage has emerged - showing just how close they came to hitting unsuspecting shoppers.
Video shows a group of three, who had just walked past the spot where the chair landed, turning around in shock after it crashed to the ground.
Other shoppers, who witnessed the scene, can be seen jumping and freezing in fear after it landed - before walking in a different direction.
Surveillance video from the shopping centre’s second floor also shows the moment the 16-year-old picked up the seat and threw it from the balcony before running away, all while his 15-year-old friend filmed the incident.
The 15-year-old boy was handed a 12-month referral order and a £426 fine by Stratford Youth Court on May 20.
He admitted criminal damage and recklessly causing a public nuisance.
The 16-year-old boy who threw the chair was handed a fine of £41 and a custodial sentence with an eight-month Detention and Training Order by the same court on September 24, 2025.
He pleaded guilty to the same charges.
Reporting by SWNS.
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