Anguish of rock star Nick Cave after teenage son is killed in 60ft fall from cliff

Musician Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur has died after falling from a cliff. The Australian singer’s son was found seriously injured on the underpass of Ovingdean Gap in Brighton, on Tuesday evening. He died from his injuries at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Police say his death is not being treated as suspicious. Cave and his wife, ex-model Susie Bick, paid tribute to Arthur in a statement, saying: “He was our beautiful, happy loving boy. We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.”

No right to appropriate the grief of a stranger with such familiarity but oh, how my heart aches for Nick Cave & Susie & Earl at their loss.

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Emergency services treated the 15-year-old, who was found on the beach below the 60ft cliff. An air ambulance took him to the hospital in Brighton after walkers tried to revive him, but he could not be saved. Arthur and his brother appeared at the end of 20,000 Days on Earth, a film documenting a fictitious 24 hour period in the singer’s life. Cave, singer for the bands Grinderman and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has two older sons from a previous relationship. The 57-year-old left his native Australia in the 1980s and has lived in Brighton for several years. He and his wife married in 1999 and Arthur and his twin brother Earl were born a year later.

The child had fallen right to the bottom from the top of the cliff

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