Liam Payne poses for photographers backstage on the MTV European Music Awards 2017 in London, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. Picture: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine choose confirmed costs in opposition to 5 individuals in reference to the loss of life of Liam Payne, a former member of the music group One Path, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for having provided him with medicine.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday, Dec. 30, the choose’s choice 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 concerning the ruling, stated that each face costs for supplying medicine and they should current themselves earlier than the choose.
The choose 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 they weren’t ordered to be held beneath preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary costs in opposition to three individuals however didn’t reveal their names.
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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.
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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 loss of life.
Payne’s post-mortem confirmed his accidents had been brought about 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 latest occasions. It introduced an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne — like his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Types, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo profession.
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