Three people charged over death of One Direction singer Liam Payne – National
Three people have been charged in connection with the One Direction singer Liam Paynedeath in a autumn from the balcony of his Buenos Aires hotel last month, Argentine authorities announced Thursday.
The death of the 31-year-old shocked the world and raised questions about how he had fallen.
A 911 call from a hotel employee on the day of Payne’s death alerted him that he had been act aggressively and may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
An autopsy revealed that the former boy band member had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system at the time of his death, the district attorney’s office said in a statement Thursday.
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Those charged in his death include a suspected drug dealer, a hotel employee who may have supplied Payne with cocaine and a person close to the singer, authorities said.
All are accused of playing a role in giving Payne the drugs. The person who was visiting Payne is also charged with “abandonment of person followed by death,” authorities said.
None of the people charged have been named.
