The police of Buenos Aires (Argentina) have searched the Hotel Casa Sur in the Palermo neighborhood in which singer Liam Payne died after falling into the void from the third floor of his room in search of new evidence for the investigation into the artist’s death. The purpose of the raid, which took place this Wednesday, October 23 and in which elements of interest to investigators such as documents, hotel records, videos, computers, telephones and other devices have been seized, is to reconstruct his last moments. before his death on October 16, according to city police sources. The Nation. According to the local Argentine media, personnel from the Special Investigations Division and the Special Technological Investigations Division went to the location, a search ordered by the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 14 in charge of Andrés Madrea. On the other hand, the Todo Noticias (TN) channel and the tabloid Daily Mail indicate that the police’s intention is to find the accommodation employee who, allegedly, supplied drugs to the former member of One Direction, substances that were found both in the first search of his room and on his body, as indicated the preliminary toxicology report.
The police have indicated that Payne was not murdered, the 31-year-old singer was alone in his room when he died, but they have established that the investigations are focused on finding the distributor who supplied him with the drugs and that, according to the latest evidence , could have been a hotel employee. On Wednesday night of last week, the police took statements from five witnesses (three workers at the establishment and two women) who, in the previous hours, had been with the artist.
In the new operation, which was ordered by the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office headed by Andrés Madrea, six members of the special investigations division and the special technological investigations division participated. In addition, the pop star’s bodyguard, Paul Higgins along with the Payne’s fatherhave been helping police review hotel security footage. At the moment, the accommodation has not issued any official comment about the accident. The pop star’s bodyguard, Paul Higgins, was helping police review hotel security footage along with Payne’s father, according to the report. Daily Mail.
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According to the first autopsy, the cause of Payne’s death was “multiple trauma and internal and external bleeding,” according to sources from the Local Police of the Argentine capital. The autopsy, carried out by the forensic medical team of the Supreme Court of Justice, confirmed that the musician died instantly due to the impact of the fall. The prosecution also adds that this probably occurred due to some type of outbreak product of drug abuse. Something that was confirmed by the preliminary toxicological report that was released last Monday. According to this document, a combination of drugs known as pink cocainewhich mixes several substances cheaper than cocaine, such as ketamine, MDMA (ecstasy) or speed. In addition, it also reflected the discovery of cocaine, crack and benzodiazepines in his system. According to the prosecutor’s office, substances were found in his room that would prove “a previous situation of alcohol and narcotic consumption.”
The body of the artist, which in the past He already spoke about the consequences of massive fame and his problems with alcoholwill remain in Argentina until the autopsy is completed and he can be repatriated to the United Kingdom. Last weekend, I arrived in Buenos Aires the artist’s father, Geoff Payne, to carry out the repatriation procedures, something that, according to several sources informed the Efe agency, can take between 10 and 15 days. Geoff Payne met with the prosecutor investigating the incident, Andrés Madrea, and he informed him that the toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy—necessary to define the delivery of the body—had not yet been completed. The prosecutor also let him know that he is not aware, to date, of other studies or laboratory analyzes and did not share any technical report on the investigation and the judicial process corresponding to the case. Payne’s father was also at the morgue and asked to visit the hotel room where his son fell.
As announced by several British media, the funeral of Payne, whose death has shocked his fans, his family, is scheduled to take place. to his former One Direction colleagues and the music industry in general, is celebrated in November.
