The young teenage son of Nick Cave has been found dead after falling from chalk cliffs at Brighton.
Arthur Cave, 15, was airlifted to hospital after walkers found him on Sussex coastal path but later died of his injuries.
Distraught, Nick Cave and his wife Susie paid tribute to their son.
“Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening. He was our beautiful, happy, loving boy,” it read. “We ask that we be given the privacy our family needs to grieve at this difficult time.”
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
A Sussex police spokeswoman 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 with by the coroner’s officer.”
Cave had four sons, two from previous relationships as well as Arthur and Earl.
Cave married model Susie Bick in 1999. Bick had featured in Vivienne Westwood campaigns and was on the cover of Cave’s 2013 album Push the Sky Away. The family live in central Brighton, about three miles (5km) from the spot where Arthur was found.
