BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine decide confirmed expenses in opposition to 5 individuals in reference to the loss of life of Liam Payne, a former member of the favored music group One Path, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for supplying him with medication.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday (Dec 30) the decide’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 was staying. The officer stated the opposite particular person was a waiter Payne met in a restaurant.
The decide 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 beneath preventive jail.
Prosecutors initially filed expenses in November in opposition to three individuals however did not reveal their names.
PAYNE FELL FROM 3RD FLOOR
Payne fell from his resort room’s balcony on the third ground within the upscale neighbourhood 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 loss of life.
The post-mortem confirmed his accidents have been brought on neither by self-harm nor 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 dominated out the likelihood that Payne died by suicide.
One Path was among the many most profitable boy bands in 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.
