3 persons, arrested and charged in connection with singer Liam Payne’s de@th
Liam Payne
Three persons were charged in connection with singer Liam Payne’s death. The singer was only 31 years old when he plunged to his death from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He had been in the country on holiday and even attended his old pal Niall Horan’s concert with his girlfriend in the weeks before his death.
Witnesses had said hotel staff ‘were on edge’ over his behaviour in the hours before his passing when he was hanging around the lobby. At one point, he is said to have ‘smashed his computer to the ground’ after reading his emails. Hotel Casa Sur’s head of reception reportedly made two 911 calls, asking for ‘someone to come’ after disclosing that a guest was ‘off his head on drugs and is destroying everything in his room
One person who accompanied the singer has been charged with the abandonment of a person followed by death and the supply and facilitation of drugs, according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office.
A hotel employee and a third person have also been charged with supplying and facilitating the drugs. None of those arrested have been named.
Argentinian authorities have been investigating Liam Payne’s final days at the CasaSur hotel.
After the singer’s death, police found substances in his hotel room and destroyed objects and furniture.
On Thursday, the public prosecutor’s office said toxicology tests revealed traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his body.
A post-mortem examination determined his cause of death as “multiple trauma” and “internal and external haemorrhage” as a result of the fall from the hotel balcony.
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According to the prosecutor’s office, medical reports also suggested Payne may have fallen in a state of semi or total unconsciousness.
The prosecutor’s office says this rules out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act by Payne, and they conclude he did not know what he was doing, nor did he understand it.
Liam Payne’s body was released to his family on Wednesday, Nov. 6, to be flown back to the UK.
