An Argentine judge has confirmed charges against five people in connection with his death. Liam Paynea former member of a musical group one directionand sentenced two of them to preventive prison terms for supplying drugs.
A judicial official confirmed the judge's ruling on Monday and said one of the two men ordered to be placed in preventive prison – a form of pretrial detention – was a hotel employee in Buenos Aires. was where Payne stayed until he died. to fall From the balcony of my room in October.
The officer said the other person was a waiter Payne had met at a restaurant. The officer, who asked not to be identified as a condition of speaking about the order, said both face drug delivery charges and are required to appear before a judge.
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The judge also charged three other people with manslaughter, including a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two hotel managers. He was not ordered to be kept in preventive detention, the official said.
Prosecutors filed in November. Preliminary charges against three personsBut they did not reveal their names.
Payne fell from the balcony of his room on the third floor of his hotel in the upscale neighborhood of Palermo in the Argentine capital. According to his autopsy, he died of multiple injuries and external bleeding.
Prosecutors also said toxicology tests of the drink showed there were “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” in his system in the moments before his death.
Payne's autopsy revealed that her injuries were neither self-inflicted nor caused by physical interference from others. The document also states that he did not have the reflex to save himself in the fall, suggesting that he may have been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina also ruled out the possibility that Payne died by suicide.
One Direction was among the most successful boy bands of recent times. He announced an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne – like his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson – pursued a solo career.
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