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 in opposition to 5 folks in reference to the demise of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Path, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for having equipped him with medication.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday the decide’s choice and stated that one of many two folks ordered to be put below preventive jail — a type of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the lodge 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 medication and they should current themselves earlier than the decide.
The decide additionally charged three different folks with manslaughter, together with a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two managers of the lodge. The official stated that they weren’t ordered to be held below preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary fees in opposition to three folks, however they did not reveal their names.
Payne fell from his room’s balcony on the third flooring of his lodge 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 had been triggered 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 may need been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina additionally dominated out the likelihood that Payne died by suicide.
One Path was among the many most profitable boy bands of current occasions. 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.
