Fans gather to pay tribute to Liam Payne after One Direction star’s funeral

Fans person paid tribute to “legend” Liam Payne aft the erstwhile One Direction star’s ceremonial connected Wednesday.

At the backstage work the singer’s household members, erstwhile One Direction bandmates and euphony mogul Simon Cowell agreed to wage their last respects to him.

Payne’s erstwhile spouse Cheryl Tweedy, the parent of his son, was besides astatine St Mary’s Church successful Amersham, Buckinghamshire, connected Wednesday.

His girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, who had been travelling with the popstar successful Argentina successful the days starring up to his decease past month, was besides astatine the funeral.

Fans began assembling hours earlier the commencement of the ceremonial astatine 1pm, determined not to miss the accidental to accidental goodbye, contempt the biting cold.

They stood silently arsenic the singer’s coffin was taken to the religion successful a achromatic horse-drawn carriage, crowned with angiosperm tributes that work “son” and “daddy”.

Tara Lloyd, 20, a ward hostess astatine Amersham Hospital, said: “He was a large guy, Liam Payne. The mode helium passed distant was precise sudden.

“I was precise shocked and astatine archetypal I was a small spot successful denial.

Growing up, I was a monolithic instrumentality of One Direction, truthful I astir felt similar a small portion of the kid successful maine was gone

Fan Tara Lloyd, 20

“Growing up, I was a monolithic instrumentality of One Direction, truthful I astir felt similar a small portion of the kid successful maine was gone.”

Cleaner Alicia Salisbury, 32, travelled from London to basal extracurricular the religion and wage her respects.

“What a legend,” she said, describing One Direction arsenic “the biggest lad set of each time”.

“Plus solo artist, dancer, actor, you can’t truly bushed that. What a vocation helium had.

He'll ever clasp a peculiar spot successful everyone's heart

Fan Alicia Salisbury, 32

“He’ll ever clasp a peculiar spot successful everyone’s heart,” she added.

Heidi Camp, 33, who lives successful Chesham, said: “Of each the places successful England, it’s rather an honour that his household has chosen to bash this here.”

She said she archetypal became a instrumentality of Liam Payne erstwhile helium appeared arsenic a solo auditioner successful The X Factor successful 2010, conscionable earlier One Direction was formed.

“I retrieve Simon Cowell putting them unneurotic and I loved them – I did not deliberation for a 2nd they’d beryllium arsenic large arsenic they became.

“Liam was large – they’re each large boys.”

After the service, Simon Cowell was seen embracing Payne’s begetter Geoff, and his parent Karen, extracurricular the church.

Liam Payne’s acheronian bluish coffin was past taken distant successful a achromatic Jaguar hearse.

The vocalist died aged 31 connected October 16 aft falling from a third-floor edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires.

He died of aggregate traumas and “internal and outer haemorrhage”, a post-mortem introspection study said.

Three radical person been charged with “abandonment of a idiosyncratic followed by death” and proviso and facilitation of narcotics, successful transportation with Payne’s death, according to the nationalist prosecutor’s bureau successful Argentina.