BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Three individuals have been charged in relation to One Path singer Liam Payne’s dying in a fall from his Buenos Aires lodge balcony final month, Argentine authorities mentioned on Thursday.
The 31-year-old’s dying shocked the world, and raised questions on how he had fallen.
A 911 name from a lodge worker the day Payne died warned that he had been performing aggressively and will have been below the affect of medicine and alcohol.
An post-mortem revealed the previous boy band member had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system when he died, a prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
Payne’s physique was handed over to his father, Geoff, over the weekend and flown again to his native England. Over the previous few weeks, Geoff had been seen alongside longtime One Path bodyguard, Paul Higgins, on the CasaSur lodge the place his son died.
These charged in Payne’s dying embrace a suspected drug vendor, a lodge worker who could have supplied Payne with the cocaine and an individual who was near the singer, the authorities mentioned.
All are accused of taking part in a task in giving Payne the medication, with the lodge worker accused of giving Payne cocaine a minimum of twice throughout his keep and the alleged drug vendor believed to have supplied it twice extra two days earlier than his dying.
The one that was visiting with Payne can also be charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death,” authorities mentioned.
None of these charged had been named, however will likely be notified and are prohibited from leaving the nation, in line with the assertion.
The investigation into the circumstances of Payne’s dying will proceed, prosecutors mentioned, including that they had been nonetheless attempting to unlock the singer’s damaged laptop computer.
Witnesses had instructed native media that they noticed Payne smashing his laptop computer within the lodge foyer.
