An Argentine judge confirmed the charges against five people in connection with the death of liam paynea former member of the music group One Direction, and imprisoned two of them for supplying him with drugs.
A court official confirmed the judge's ruling on Monday and said one of the two people ordered to be placed in preventive detention – a form of pretrial detention – was an employee of the Buenos Aires hotel where Payne stayed until he died after fall from the balcony of his room in October.
The officer said the other man was a waiter Payne met at the restaurant. The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak about the order, said both face drug supply charges and must appear before a judge.
The judge also charged three other people with manslaughter, including a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two hotel managers. The official said that the pre-trial detention center was not intended for them.
The hotel manager and front desk manager, who were charged, saw Payne intoxicated and unable to stand in the hotel lobby before his death, according to reports news release from the prosecutor's office. Authorities said the manager allowed Payne to be escorted to his balcony room and the front desk manager helped get him to his room instead of keeping him out of harm's way and with company until medical help arrived. .
In November the prosecutor's office issued the initial charge against three people, but their names were not given.
Payne fell from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in the upmarket Palermo district of the Argentine capital. According to the autopsy, he died of multiple injuries and external bleeding.
Prosecutors also said Payne's toxicology test showed there were “traces of alcohol, cocaine and prescribed antidepressants” in his body minutes before he died.
Payne's autopsy revealed that his injuries were not caused by self-inflicted injury or physical interference by others. The document also says he had no reflex to protect himself when he fell, suggesting he may have been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina also ruled out the possibility that Payne committed suicide.
One Direction has been one of the most successful boy bands of recent times. This was announced by Mr indefinite break in 2016 and Payne — like his predecessor classmates Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo career.