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 choose confirmed prices towards 5 individuals in reference to the dying 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 choose’s resolution and stated that one of many two individuals ordered to be put below 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 prices for supplying medication 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 that they weren’t ordered to be held below preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary prices 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 dying.
Payne’s post-mortem confirmed his accidents have 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 might need been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina additionally dominated out the chance 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 Types, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo profession.
