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THE FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD son of Nick Cave had taken LSD before he fell to his death from a cliff in Brighton, England in July, an inquest has heard.
Arthur Cave was found with life threatening injuries at the base of cliffs at Ovingdean Gap in Brighton on 14 July.
He died in hospital later that evening.
The inquest into his death heard testimony from a friend of Arthur’s, who said they had taken the drug together on the day he died, the Guardian reports.
The teenager’s friend cannot be named for legal reasons.
According to the paper, witnesses saw the teenager staggering at the top of the cliff before he fell. The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem said that even if there had been a trauma team at the base of the cliff “it would have been very unlikely that he would have survived”.
Asked if LSD had been used Dr Simi George, the pathologist, replied “yes”, the BBC reports.
The cause of death was given as “multiple traumatic injuries due to a fall from a height”.
Singer Cave (58) and his family have made their home in Brighton for many years. He initially left Australia in 1980.
He and his wife Susie Bick were at the hearing, held before Brighton’s senior coroner at Woodvale Crematorium.
Following Arthur’s death, his parents released a statement describing him as “our beautiful, happy, loving boy”.
Nick Cave is probably best known as the front man of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which he formed in 1983, and with whom he has released 15 albums, including 1997’s critically acclaimed The Boatman’s Call.
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Hardly transforming the skyline at the limited heights they can build.
Even the Capital Dock development is tiny. by international standards. But this is Ireland, always thinking small!
Plenty of people in Ireland think big, but are stymied by Luddites and residents groups
Oh yeah let’s leave it all to the developers.. What could possibly go wrong.
Jimmy i’d trust the developers any day of the week over Dublin City Council to create an interesting and beautiful skyline, as well as provide adequate office space to potential employers.
Ya right, I wouldn’t trust a developer as far as I could throw them, and seeing how bloated they are that wouldn’t be very far
They have planning for a 7 story office cube in Spencer Dock. Beside the new Central Bank they’re building another 7 storey cub. Behind the central bank, they’re building three interlinked 7 storey cubes.
Whoever these oul lads are that come up with these “masterplans” of height restrictions they need to be identified and strung up before they cause further economic and architectural damage to Dublin.
The Burj Khalifa cost €1.35 billion to build. With €250 million you could build something really impressive but you’re not allowed do anything like that in Ireland even though the market is obviously there.
It’s a joke. Our planning system is practically communist…Market demand seems to carry zero weight in their considerations.
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