Explained: All the new information that’s just come out about Liam Payne’s death

On 16th October, the former One Direction singer Liam Payne tragically died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. The police in Argentina have been investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

Now, the National Prosecutor’s Office for Criminal and Correctional Matters has released a very detailed statement about what they’ve discovered so far in the investigation. Here’s all the new information which you need to know about Liam Payne’s death.

Medical teams don’t think Liam Payne’s death was a suicide

The prosecutor’s office is no longer considering Liam Payne’s death a suicide. Medical reports suggest he fell off the balcony while he was partly unconscious or even completely unconscious. So, he couldn’t have consciously made the decision to fall off the balcony.

The report explains, “Self-injury of any kind and/or the physical intervention of third parties were ruled out.

“(Medical reports) also stressed that the victim did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself in the fall, so that, for the moment, it can be inferred that he may have fallen in a state of semi- or total unconsciousness

“Although other medical antecedents of the victim’s medical history have yet to be analysed, the phenomenon of the lack of defence or conservation reflex in the fall, together with other relevant data due to its consumption, allow us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was in a state of noticeable decrease or abolition of consciousness at the time of the fall.

“For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act 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.”

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Three people have been arrested in relation to Liam Payne’s death

The new information from the prosecutor’s office revealed the police are formally investigating three people in connection to Liam Payne’s death. It reads, “Unlawful conduct was discovered, as a result of which three people were charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

Fans paying tribute to Liam Payne outside the CasaSur Hotel where he died
(Credit: Roberto Tuero/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

The first person is a friend of Liam Payne’s. The police have charged him with abandonment.

The report says, “The first of the accused is the person who accompanied the artist on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires, who is charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death – contemplated in article 106 of the Penal Code and which provides for a prison sentence of 5 to 15 years -, as perpetrator, in ideal concurrence with the supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

The second person is the hotel employee who supplied Liam Payne with cocaine. The third person is an unknown drugs supplier.

The full toxicology report has been released

Liam Payne did have drugs and alcohol in his system at the time of his death. However, these substances weren’t what killed him.

The prosecutor’s office said, “The results of the toxicological studies – already communicated to his family – revealed that, in the moments prior to his death and during at least his last 72 hours, Payne only had traces in his body of a poly-consumption of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed anti-depressant.

“The morticians… concluded that Payne’s death was caused by ‘polytraumatisms’ and ‘internal and external haemorrhage’, as a result of the fall the musician suffered from the balcony of the third floor room of the hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood where he was staying.”

Liam Payne’s body was returned to his father Geoff Payne on Wednesday 6th November.

Police have searched nine homes

As part of the investigation, police have raided nine homes in Buenos Aires, watched 800 hours of security footage from the CasaSur Hotel and the surrounding area, and interviewed dozens of witnesses.

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