BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine decide confirmed expenses in opposition to 5 individuals in reference to the demise 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 resolution and mentioned that one of many two individuals ordered to be put beneath preventive jail — a type of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the lodge in Buenos Aires the place Payne was staying. The officer mentioned the opposite individual 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 lodge. The official mentioned 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 lodge room’s balcony on the third flooring within the upscale neighbourhood of Palermo within the Argentine capital. His post-mortem mentioned he died from a number of accidents and exterior bleeding.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned that Payne’s toxicological exams confirmed that his physique had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” within the moments earlier than his demise.
The post-mortem confirmed his accidents had been precipitated neither by self-harm nor bodily intervention of others. The doc additionally mentioned that he didn’t have the reflex of defending himself within the fall, which suggests he may need been unconscious. Prosecutors dominated out the chance that Payne died by suicide.
One Path was among the many most profitable boy bands in latest instances. 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.
