CHARGES against Liam Payne's friend and two hotel workers have been dropped. Roger Nores and two staff members at the hotel in Buenos Aires when the One Direction star fell to his death in October had been charged with manslaughter. But appeal court judges have now cleared all three and reversed the earlier decision to charge them.
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The pair accused of selling Liam cocaine before his fall from the CasaSur Palermo Hotel will remain in prison after being told they still face prosecution and probable trial. Nores' lawyer Rafael Cuneo Libarona, the brother of Argentina’s Justice Minister, had fought to get the US businessman off his manslaughter rap.
He rebutted claims from the prosecution that he was Liam's representative and had failed in his duty of care towards him. Mr Cuneo Libarona said after news of the appeal ruling emerged: “We are happy to have reversed the decision by 360 degrees. "We have always maintained that Rogelio Nores was not responsible for Liam Payne's death.
"He was only his friend and had no duty or legal obligation to ensure his safety.". The three appeal court judges announced their ruling in a written document published eight days after a hearing at Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Court in Buenos Aires.
