TEENAGER Paul Macauley who fell his death from the roof of a Liverpool city centre apartment block had been due to start at university today.

Paul Macaulay, 19, was due to travel to Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridgeshire, to begin a film and media studies degree, his distraught father revealed last night.

Ian Macaulay said he was left “absolutely devastated” by the freak accident in the early hours of yesterday.

The former Hilbre High School pupil, from West Kirby, slipped from the roof of apartments in Victoria Street, falling 75ft. He later died from his injuries in hospital.

Mr Macaulay said he would remember his son as “fun-loving, kind and beautiful”.

He said: “He was such a great lad, full of life and energy. I was supposed to drive him to Uni.

“His mum and I are both absolutely devastated.

“We will miss him so much.”

Paul, known as “Fesh” to friends, was among a group who climbed from a ledge onto the roof of the apartment block at around 1am.

While others smoked, he tried to climb back inside, but is understood to have slipped, and fell onto a cobbled alleyway called Progress Lane.