How did Liam Payne die? Tragic last hours as three people charged before funeral

Liam Payne's ceremonial is taking spot contiguous successful the Home Counties with One Direction and his erstwhile spouse Cheryl joining the singer's adjacent friends and household astatine the service

Liam Payne volition beryllium laid to remainder contiguous successful a Home Counties ceremonial attended by his adjacent friends and family.

The religion ceremony, which volition commence this afternoon, volition besides spot Liam's One Direction bandmates stitchery unneurotic for the last time. While Liam's former spouse Cheryl, with whom she shares lad Bear, volition besides beryllium successful attendance to wage her respects alongside Liam's parents and sisters.

The vocalist died aft falling from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel successful Buenos Aires successful October, astatine the property of 31.

On the 8 November, it was revealed that 3 radical person been charged successful transportation with Liam's death.

The nationalist prosecutor’s bureau successful Argentina said 3 radical had been charged, with 1 idiosyncratic who had been accompanying Payne accused of “abandonment of a idiosyncratic followed by death” – which carries a maximum condemnation of 15 years successful prison.

An worker astatine the edifice wherever Payne was staying and a 3rd idiosyncratic person besides been charged with supplying drugs. Meanwhile, prosecutors besides ruled retired 3rd enactment engagement and “self-harm” successful Payne’s death, according to a forensic psychiatric report.

“Although different aesculapian inheritance accusation from the victim’s objective past indispensable inactive beryllium analysed, the improvement of the deficiency of defence oregon self-preservation reflex successful the fall, unneurotic with different applicable information from his consumption, let america to reason that Liam Payne was not afloat conscious oregon was experiencing a authorities of noticeable alteration oregon nonaccomplishment of consciousness astatine the clip of the fall,” prosecutors said successful a translated statement.

The bureau besides said it had completed a elaborate investigation of much than 800 hours of video footage from information cameras and obtained respective twelve testimonies from edifice staff, household members, friends and aesculapian professionals.

Nine raids person besides been ordered connected properties successful Buenos Aires and immoderate of Payne’s devices are inactive being analysed, prosecutors said.

The musician’s assemblage was handed implicit to his father, Geoff Payne, astatine the commencement of November. Prosecutors added that “exhaustive and meticulous measures were taken to clarify the circumstances” astir the erstwhile One Direction singer’s death.

Payne died from aggregate injuries arsenic good arsenic interior and outer bleeding caused by the fall, a post-mortem introspection said. His assemblage was recovered successful the hotel’s interior courtyard.

After his death, constabulary recovered substances successful his edifice room, and damaged objects and furniture, according to the nationalist prosecutor’s office.

After the tragic quality broke successful October, fans astir the globe held vigils and euphony stars paid tribute aft Payne died connected October 16.

In a radical statement, his erstwhile bandmates: Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson, said they were “completely devastated”, and volition miss the vocalist “terribly”.

Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, said successful a station to societal media that her bosom was “shattered successful ways I can’t enactment into words”.

The vocalist had recovered fame alongside the 4 boys erstwhile Simon Cowell enactment them unneurotic to signifier One Direction connected ITV endowment amusement The X Factor successful 2010.

Payne archetypal auditioned successful 2008 erstwhile helium was 14, singing Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, with justice Cowell telling him to instrumentality to the endowment amusement 2 years later.

The euphony mogul said helium was “truly devastated” successful an Instagram station reacting to quality of Payne’s death, adding: “Every teardrop I person shed is simply a representation of you.”

Payne antecedently said helium struggled with alcoholism astatine the highest of his occurrence with One Direction, describing hitting “rock bottom” to The Diary Of A CEO podcast host, Steven Bartlett.