Liam Payne death inquest: Three charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death, self-harm ruled out as cause of death

Three people have been charged with “crimes of abandonment with subsequent death, supply and facilitation of drugs” in connection with the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne last month, Argentine prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday.

The three people charged in Paynon’s death include a man who accompanied Paynon “daily during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” The man is charged with “offenses of abandonment resulting in death.” According to the prosecutor’s office, this charge could result in imprisonment for a term of 5 to 15 years.

According to Argentine State Police, Payne died on October 16 after falling from his room on the third floor of a hotel in Palermo, Buenos Aires. He was 31 years old.

Two other people each face two charges of “drug supply offenses,” prosecutors said. The defendants were a hotel employee who is alleged to have provided Payne with two quantities of cocaine while he was staying at the hotel, and a drug supplier accused of providing Payne with supplies of drugs “on two different occasions on October 14.” according to the prosecutor’s office.

The investigation into Payne’s death also found that he “was not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of marked impairment or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall,” leading prosecutors to rule out “self-mutilation of any kind.”

“For the prosecution, this situation would also exclude the possibility of a conscious or voluntary action on the part of the victim, since in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it,” he said. reported the prosecutor’s office.

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“In the moments before his death and for at least the last 72 hours, Payne’s system contained only traces of polydrug abuse – alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant,” toxicology results showed, prosecutors said. said.

Payne’s death was the result of “multiple injuries” and “internal and external bleeding” from the musician’s fall from a hotel balcony, an autopsy found, according to prosecutors.

“All of the injuries Payne sustained were consistent with those sustained as a result of a fall from height, and that any self-harm and/or physical intervention by a third party was ruled out,” prosecutors said.

Police search hotel workers’ homes after Liam Payne’s death

The news comes after two officers close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News that police raided the homes of hotel employees and a friend of Payne’s.

There were nine raids in total, during which police seized cellphones, a hard drive, three laptops and drugs, including marijuana, according to prosecutors.

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