Liam Payne performs on ABC’s “Good Morning America” at Rumsey Playfield/SummerStage in New York, Aug. 4, 2015.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine decide confirmed fees towards 5 individuals in reference to the demise of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Course, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for having equipped him with medicine.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday the decide’s determination and stated that one of many two individuals ordered to be put beneath preventive jail — a type of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the resort in Buenos Aires the place Payne stayed till he died after falling from the balcony of his room in October.
The officer stated the opposite particular person was a waiter Payne met in a restaurant. The officer, who requested to not be recognized as a situation to speak in regards to the ruling, stated that each face fees for supplying medicine and they should current themselves earlier than the decide.
The decide additionally charged three different individuals with manslaughter, together with a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two managers of the resort. The official stated that they weren’t ordered to be held beneath preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary fees towards three individuals, however they did not reveal their names.
Payne fell from his room’s balcony on the third flooring of his resort within the upscale neighborhood of Palermo within the Argentine capital. His post-mortem stated he died from a number of accidents and exterior bleeding.
Prosecutors additionally stated that Payne’s toxicological exams confirmed that his physique had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” within the moments earlier than his demise.
Payne’s post-mortem confirmed his accidents have been brought on neither by self-harm nor by bodily intervention of others. The doc additionally stated that he didn’t have the reflex of defending himself within the fall, which suggests he might need been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina additionally dominated out the likelihood that Payne died by suicide.
One Course was among the many most profitable boy bands of current instances. It introduced an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne — like his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Kinds, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo profession.
