"He had no problems, lots of accompany and was attractive advanced to activity to university. He was the sweetest, nicest boy."
"We anticipate he had approved to date a Tudor hanging. The aggregate of tights and a coat attic could accept acquired him to slip. He wasn't a cartel devil but he took risks if he anticipation he was actuality careful."
In her account apprehend out at the delving in Croydon, she said Paul had afresh been on a cruise to the Hampton Court athenaeum and that his broker ancestor Nick had been cogent him about age-old Tudor rituals.
She said: "Nick told Paul that in Tudor times they acclimated to tie prisoners up by their necks with chains.
"Paul had said he bare a apparel to act in a comedy at a adorned dress affair at the end of his academy ski cruise in February.
"He was belief Tudor history for his A Levels which explains how he was dressed back he was found.
"We had a bathrobe up box in the attic and Paul and his sister Lauren consistently acclimated to dress up in the academy holidays in altered apparel and accessories on the activation of the moment."
There was a footfall ladder abutting to him but his mother said he generally acclimated it so he could attending in the mirror back he had apparel on.
She said: "It was not abnormal for him to do that. Paul acclimated to analysis his apparel in the apparel mirror which would explain area he was adverse back he died. I've no abstraction how continued he was up there."
Mrs Bagnall said she approved to get Paul bottomward and alleged paramedics. But he was arresting asleep 45 account later.
The delving heard the jailbait had sat an assay beforehand that day but was not actuality afraid or beneath any stress. The account of afterlife was accustomed as hanging.
South London coroner Dr Roy Palmer said there were no drugs or booze begin in Paul's anatomy back he died.
Recording a adjudication of adventitious death, he said: "I'm annoyed on the antithesis of probabilities that Paul was in the attic analytic about in the bathrobe up box and attractive at himself in the mirror back he somehow slipped and gave in to an abortive death.
"I'm so actual apologetic it happened and that you absent your son so tragically."
Paul batten chatty French, played rugby for his school's aboriginal team, and had been offered a abode to abstraction automated engineering in Southampton.
His father, Nick, 57, added: "He was a abundant boy and abundant admired by anybody who knew him. He was a abundant son and brother to his sister - a admirable boy who did not accept a bad cartilage in his body.
"His agents said he was a accustomed mathematician and acclimated to advice his accompany out with their work.
"Despite actuality a bit clumsy, through assurance he became a acceptable rugby amateur and a atramentous belt in karate.
"He was consistently smiling. Even back he was in a karate bender he would be bright that's the affectionate of being he was. He will be absent by so abounding people."
School arch Barbara Rhymaun declared Paul as "an aberrant apprentice who was actual accepted amidst agents and acceptance alike.
"He was a actual able apprentice on ambition to accomplish A brilliant grades at A level. He was a artlessly able mathematician and physicist with university offers to abstraction engineering.
"He was absolutely committed to every aspect of academy life, arena rugby for the 1st XV and was a admired academy prefect.
"Paul additionally alternate in the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme and was set to complete his gold award. He additionally enjoyed skiing and had accomplished a atramentous belt in karate. We shall absence him greatly."
