Liam Payne: Police in Argentina arrest three people in connection with the One Direction star’s death

Argentine prosecutors investigating the death of Liam Payne last night confirmed the arrests of three suspects who are now under formal investigation.

They did not mention a “friend,” whom they accuse of “abandonment of a person followed by death” in connection with the singer’s death.

They also accuse the person of complicity in the supply of drugs, crimes that upon conviction are punishable by up to fifteen years in prison.

According to ABC News, two hotel employees are also among the three people now formally investigated by authorities.

It comes after the One Direction star, 31, died after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16.

Argentinian prosecutors investigating the death of Liam Payne last night sensationally confirmed the arrests of three suspects now under formal investigation

In their third official statement since the star’s death, prosecutors revealed that only alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant had been found in the former One Direction singer’s system.

Despite previous speculation, they have ruled out that the pop star committed suicide after falling from the balcony.

The statement from the investigation led by prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea confirmed that “illegal conduct” had been discovered in connection with the pop star’s death.

The statement read: ‘Three people were charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supplying and facilitating narcotics.

“From the beginning of the investigation, exhaustive and painstaking actions and measures were carried out within days to clarify the circumstances surrounding the artist’s death.”

They announced that 800 hours of CCTV footage had been examined, as well as several dozen statements from hotel staff, family, friends and medical professionals.

They confirmed that in the investigation they had examined the pop star’s mobile phone, as well as the hotel’s guest register.

They also confirmed that the necessary thanatological and laboratory studies were conducted and completed post-mortem.

The statement continued: ‘As a result of the evidence collected and after analyzing the various pieces of evidence and numerous documentary attachments and the background of the case, the Prosecutor Andrea Madrea formally charged three people and requested their indictment and detention in a 180-page leaf. report presented last Friday before Judge Bruniard.’

They confirmed that a person who accompanies the artist on a daily basis during his stay in Buenos Aires has been charged with abandonment of a person followed by death.

The person in question has also been charged with conspiracy to supply and facilitate narcotics, according to authorities.

The second defendant, a hotel worker, has been charged with supplying cocaine to Liam Payne while he was at the hotel.

The third person has also been charged with supplying narcotics to the pop star on Oct. 14, prosecutors say.

It comes as police investigating the death of Liam Payne raided the homes of two hotel workers and a ‘friend’ of the former One Direction singer in Buenos Aires province on Tuesday.

‘In addition to the strong evidence obtained to date (visual evidence, registry material, medical, scientific evidence, telephone material, testimonies, etc.), the investigation must continue as, among other things, the unlocking of the victim’s personal netbook – which is broken – and other devices seized during the investigation are still ongoing.

‘According to the investigation led by Madrea and his team of prosecutors, which analyzed, among other things, testimonies, video footage, messages, documents, invoices, social networks and communications, at least four deliveries of narcotic substances from third parties and other facilitations of addictive substance consumption were visibly, concretely and convincingly accredited by his immediate environment, which were aimed against the former member of the group One Direction during his stay in the hotel, between October 13 and 16.

‘The results of the toxicology tests – which had already been communicated to his family – showed that in the moments leading up to his death and for at least his last 72 hours, Payne had only traces in his body of a polyconsumption of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant. This conclusion was reached after complete toxicological tests on urine, blood and vitreous humor, which were carried out in a very short time.

‘The undertakers of the Forensic Medical Corps (CMF) who carried out the autopsy were the director of the Judicial Mortuary, Santiago Mafia Bizzozero, and the forensic doctor Roberto Víctor Cohen, who concluded that Payne’s death was caused by ‘polytrauma’ and ‘internal injuries ‘. and external bleeding’, as a result of the fall the musician suffered from the balcony of the room on the third floor of the hotel in the Palermo district, where he stayed.

‘In three additional reports of medico-legal considerations, at the request of the Prosecutor Madrea, Mafia Bizzozero and Cohen confirmed, among other things, that all injuries exhibited by Payne were compatible with those caused by a fall from a height and that self-injury of any kind and/or physical intervention by third parties excluded. They also emphasized that the victim did not adopt a reflexive position to protect himself during the fall, so at this point it can be inferred that he may have fallen into a state of semi- or total unconsciousness.

“At this point, Public Prosecutor Madrea requested an additional forensic psychiatric report and took testimony from the expert who prepared it. Although other medical antecedents from the victim’s medical history remain to be analyzed, the phenomenon of the absence of a defense or conservation reflex in the fall, together with other relevant data resulting from its consumption, allows us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious. or was in a state of noticeable decrease or abolishment of consciousness at the time of the fall.

“For the prosecutor, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act by the victim, since in the state he was in he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it.”