Five people charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death
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Five people have been charged in Argentina in connection with the death of One Direction musician Liam Payne. The singer died aged 31 in October after falling from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires. The hotel’s manager, a receptionist and a friend of Payne have been charged with manslaughter, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday, in a statement which referred to the defendants only by their initials.
They are reported to be hotel manager Gilda Martin, receptionist Esteban Grassi and Payne’s friend Roger Nores. Two others, hotel employee Ezequiel Pereyra and waiter Braian Paiz, have been charged with supplying cocaine. Prosecutors launched an investigation shortly after Payne’s death on October 16.
In early November, three people were charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death” and supply and facilitation of drugs in connection with Payne’s death, but the prosecutors did not name the defendants. The singer died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, a post-mortem examination report said.
According to prosecutors , “self-harm” was ruled out and no injuries were observed that would suggest the intervention of third parties. It was concluded that Payne was “not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall”.
