The former member of the boy band One Direction, the British musician Liam Payne, had consumed alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants before dying on October 16 after falling from the balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires, reported on Thursday, November 7, Argentine justice.
«The results of the toxicological studies – already communicated to his family – revealed that, in the moments before his death and during at least his last seventy-two hours, Payne presented polyconsumption of alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants in his system »says the Argentine prosecutor’s office in a press release, specifying that three people have been charged with drug sales and abandonment of a vulnerable person.
Without specifying the names of those involved, the prosecution stated that the person who accompanied Liam Payne daily during his stay in Buenos Aires is charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death,” a crime punishable by five to fifteen years in prison. and supply of narcotics.
a hotel employee “Must answer for supplying cocaine to Liam Payne twice during his stay”and a third person is “charged with supplying narcotics on two occasions at two different times on October 14”.
The prosecution also confirmed the first autopsy results that suggested that the injuries on the victim’s body were consistent with those of a fall and that self-mutilation or “physical intervention of third parties” They were excluded.
The autopsy revealed that in Payne’s hands “no “defensive” type injury has[avaient] “It was found that all the injuries were vital and occurred simultaneously with each other.”. That is, due to these injuries and the position of the body on the ground, the autopsy estimated that “Payne did not adopt a reflexive stance to protect himself [dans la chute] and that he could have fallen into a state of semi or total unconsciousness”. A thesis validated on Thursday by the prosecution. “Payne was not fully conscious or in a state of markedly diminished or abolished consciousness at the time of the fall.” he clarified.
