The Argentine justice has prosecuted five people in the case investigating the death of British singer Liam Payne, who died on October 16 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to what the local press published this Sunday.
In addition to prosecuting the five defendants for the death of the former One Direction singer, the 34th Criminal and Correctional Court ruled preventive detention two of the defendants and summoned them to appear at the courthouse within 24 business hours, according to the Infobae portal.
The two prosecuted for the crime of supplying narcotics for consideration with a request for arrest are the former waiter Brian Paiz24 years old, and the employee of the hotel in the capital’s Palermo neighborhood where the singer died Ezequiel Pereyrawhom Justice seized for 5 million pesos (500 thousand dollars), according to Infobae.
The businessman was also prosecuted Roger Nores for the crime of manslaughter, who was subject to an embargo for 50 million pesos (50 thousand dollars) and was prohibited from leaving the country, the portal added.
The other two defendants are the hotel manager who was present on the day of Payne’s death, Gilda Martinwho was also seized for 50 million pesos (50 thousand dollars), and the person in charge of the place, Esteban Grassi, indicated Infobae.
The Prosecutor’s investigation confirmed “at least” four supplies of narcotics from third parties and other facilitations of addictive consumption during his stay in the hotel where he died and that “in the period of at least his last 72 hours, Payne only had traces in his body of polyconsumption of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant.”
The autopsy revealed that Payne’s death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage”, as a result of the fall he suffered from the balcony of the hotel’s third floor room, ruling out self-harm injuries or the physical intervention of third parties and He concluded that he did not protect himself in the fall, so he inferred that “he could have fallen into a state of semi-or total unconsciousness.”