Paul Hardcastle reveals he spoke to his son minutes before his fatal accident as he opens up about the heartbreaking moment the police broke the news

Paul Hardcastle has revealed he spoke to his son minutes before his fatal accident as he opened up about the heartbreaking moment the police broke the news.

Musician Paul, 68, announced his son, also named Paul, 35, had passed away in a heartbreaking Instagram post on Monday night. 

Paul Snr revealed he spoke to his son on the phone five minutes before the fatal accident, as he was running late for a flight to Greece but needed to pick up his saxophone from his dad's house.

'He went like, "I'll get back to you in five minutes",' Paul began in an Instagram video on Friday. 'He didn't get back to me in five minutes.'

Paul Snr went on to speak about the moment the police knocked on his door to tell him his son had died, tearing up as he recalled the awful day.

He said: 'I've lost a lovely son, and he's lost his life, and could have easily all been avoided. 

'But that's decisions. You make decisions, and if you make the wrong ones, then these are the things that can happen to you. So anyone out there that's thinking, "oh, I'll just do this. I'll just do that". It's just not worth it. 

'Because when you get that knock on the door, and I felt sorry for the policeman, actually, there's two of them and they was nice. And they said "Do you mind if we come in? We've got some news". I said "Okay". [They replied] "We're very, we're very, very, very sorry to tell you that your son's been involved in an accident and he's passed away.'

Paul teared up as he continued: 'When you hear that, wow, nothing's worth doing it for. 

'So anyone out there thinking along them lines, don't bother. It's just not worth it. Cancel the gig. Do something else. I don't know whatever you want to do, but don't do that, because it really that the odds, I won't say the odds are set against you, but the odds, when they come up, then they can be really brutal, and that's what's happened. 

'So rest in peace Paul Jr, love dad.'

Paul revealed his son Paul Jnr had decided to make a journey to his dad's  on his scrambler motorbike due to their being a puncture on his car.

But Paul Snr claimed the motorbike was not meant to be on the road, hence why his son had been briefly tailed by a police bar before the fatal crash. 

Paul Sr first shared the tragic news about his son with a heartbreaking Instagram post alongside a childhood photo of him. 

The singer, composer and producer wrote: 'Just to let you know that my super talented son Paul Hardcastle Jnr was in a fatal motorcycle accident earlier and has sadly died. RIP son love Dad.'

Paul Jnr was also a musician and was known for playing the saxophone and DJing.

Police confirmed earlier this week that Paul Jnr was killed in a motorcycle crash after failing to stop for the police. 

Officers pursued a motorbike on Monday in Ongar, Essex, after it failed to stop, police said.

The bike was involved in crash with a van and police said the driver of the motorbike, a man in his 30s, tragically died at the scene.

The driver of the van was arrested in connection with the incident and released under investigation. 

Essex Police have said the incident had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), who have confirmed that it will carry out an independent investigation into the tragedy.

He starred on his father’s 2008 Hardcastle 5, which was released in 2008 and appeared on the final track from the record, Take 1. He also worked on the 2022 release, Hardcastle X. 

Paul Sr, is perhaps best known known for his 1985 hit about soldiers in the Vietnam War, 19, which reached number one in the charts for five weeks.

He is a well respected electronic producer, keyboardist and composer and in 1986, he released a remix to One Wish by Hiroshima.

That same year, Paul's The Wizard was adopted as the theme tune for BBC's Top Of The Pops' weekly chart show, which was used from 1986 - 1991.