Liam Payne’s death has been judged an accident, as Argentine Officials accuse three people of abandonment and drug-related offenses.
Liam Payne’s family and fans have recently grieved the singer’s sudden death in October. Argentine authorities detained three men three weeks after the occurrence and ruled out the possibility of suicide. Payne was staying at a hotel in Buenos Aires when he fell off the third-floor balcony.
An official autopsy on September 30th was completed on October 16, and the following reports verified that the former One Direction member sustained multiple head and bodily injuries on impact. The study stated that the injuries could not have been caused by self-harm or a fistfight.
Quite a few drugs were also present in his system, including a drug cocktail called ‘pink cocaine’, according to toxicology reports. According to La Nación, employees of the Casa Sur hotel told police earlier that a drunken man was causing disturbances, referring to the Strip That Down singer.
Three people, who have not been named yet, have been charged with causing Payne’s death by neglect, supplying substances, and enabling use. The authorities have prevented the trio from leaving the country, charging them with “abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitating the use of narcotics.” However, none of them have been arrested as of now.
Of the three people charged, one of them is said to be a close associate of Liam, while another person who worked at the hotel reportedly supplied him the substances found in his system at the time of death, and a drug dealer is among the three.
As per the BBC, the authorities are still investigating Payne’s broken laptop and other devices. The prosecutor’s office examined more than 800 hours of security camera footage of the hotel and on public roads alongside collecting dozens of testimonies. The Teardrops singer’s body was flown back to the UK to his family on Wednesday.
In 2010, Liam Payne was placed in a group with four other boys: Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik, which went on to form One Direction, which went on to take the world by storm. Between 2010 and 2016, One Direction released five albums and sold over 70 million copies worldwide. In 2019, Liam joined the ranks of his fellow One Direction members who pursued a solo career even after the split of the band by releasing the solo debut album LP1.