Nick Cave’s 15-year old son Arthur has died after falling from a cliff in the town of Brighton, England where the family lived.
The boy fell at Ovingdean Gap at around 6pm on Tuesday (July 14, 2014). Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Nick and his wife Susie Cave have issued the following statement:
“Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening. He was our beautiful, happy loving boy. We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.”
In a statement Sussex Police said, “A 15-year-old boy who was found with life threatening injuries on the underpass of Ovingdean Gap, having fallen from the cliff above, has sadly died in hospital on Tuesday.
“Members of the public carried out first aid on the boy before he was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, just after 6pm. He later died there of his injuries.
“The death is being dealt by the coroner’s officer.”
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