Moment yob hurled sofa from Westfield Stratford balcony

The young yob who filmed his friend hurling a heavy sofa off the top floor of Westfield Stratford shopping centre has avoided jail.The teenager and his friend were arrested after a video bearing the caption 'no way bro almost killed someone' went viral on social media on 1 March last year.The now 15-year-old admitted to criminal damage of the £500 blue sofa chair which was hurled off a 50ft balcony at the busy east London mall.The 15kg chair narrowly missed punters on the ground floor before the pair shamelessly ran away.