HEARTBROKEN housemates have paid tribute to a “kind, generous and selfless” Pantperthog man who lost his life after a horror smash on Saturday morning.

Guto Pugh, 21, was driving to his summer job in the Bae Abermaw Hotel in Barmouth when he was involved in a three-vehicle collision which killed him instantly.

His shocked housemates, who all lived together in a student house in Bangor last year, remember Guto as a man with a “natural ability to make others happy”.

Zach Reading, who lived with Guto for two years, said: “Whether at the front of his band or working with primary school children or just with a few friends in the pub; his humour and kind-heartedness would leave smiles all over.

“He will be sorely missed, but his memory will continue to create smiles on the faces of those that loved him.”

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