Liam Payne died of multiple traumas, post-mortem examination finds

Former One Direction subordinate Liam Payne died of aggregate traumas and “internal and outer haemorrhage”, arsenic a effect of a autumn from the balcony of a hotel’s third-floor, a post-mortem introspection study has said.

A property merchandise from Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No 16 said it would beryllium investigating the incidental arsenic an “inconclusive death” aft the conclusions of the report.

Payne’s household told the PA quality bureau successful a statement, issued via a spokeswoman, that they were “heartbroken” and added: “Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul.”

The prosecutor’s bureau said 5 witnesses were questioned successful bid to reconstruct what happened connected October 16 astatine the CasaSur Hotel successful the Palermo country of Buenos Aires.

Reports accidental unit astatine the edifice made 2 calls to exigency services, with audio revealing a unit subordinate had asked for assistance for a impermanent who was “intoxicated by drugs and alcohol”.

Police officers and the exigency services recovered Payne dormant astatine the country and his assemblage was transferred to the judicial morgue.

The prosecutor’s bureau indicated the instrumentalist was unsocial erstwhile the autumn occurred and said helium appeared to beryllium “going done immoderate benignant of outbreak owed to substance abuse”.

Forensic experts said nary injuries were observed that would suggest the involution of 3rd parties, though “the probe is besides aimed astatine determining the imaginable involution of 3rd parties successful the events anterior to his death”.

Police successful the Argentine superior antecedently said the euphony star’s edifice country had been “in implicit disarray” with “various items broken”.

They added that a whiskey bottle, lighter and mobile telephone had been retrieved from the interior edifice courtyard wherever Payne’s assemblage was found.

Tributes person been paid to the vocalist aft his decease astatine the property of 31, with pictures showing shocked fans gathering extracurricular the edifice aft constabulary cordoned disconnected the area, with forensic investigators successful achromatic protective suits and bluish gloves seen entering and leaving.

Fans were photographed lighting candles and leaving flowers astatine the broadside of the roadworthy successful an impromptu vigil arsenic they paid tribute to the euphony star.

Former X Factor contestants person paid tribute to Payne, with Cher Lloyd, who appeared connected the ITV programme successful the aforesaid year, penning connected Instagram that she volition “cherish the memories made and the laughs we had”.

A station from the authoritative X Factor relationship connected X, formerly Twitter, described Payne arsenic “immensely talented”, portion the show’s erstwhile big Dermot O’Leary told ITV’s This Morning the vocalist was “kind of some omniscient and benignant of a young psyche astatine precisely the aforesaid time”.

One Direction was formed successful 2010, with Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles, aft they individually auditioned for The X Factor.

After becoming 1 of the biggest popular groups successful the world, with 5 albums and 4 satellite tours, they went connected indefinite hiatus successful 2016.

Payne, who was calved successful Wolverhampton, released his debut solo medium LP1 successful December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid, Familiar and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.

The opus was 1 of 2 tracks that reached the apical 10 successful the UK authoritative charts, alongside For You with Rita Ora from the movie Fifty Shades Freed – which the duo performed astatine the Brit Awards successful 2018.

Payne was successful a high-profile narration with Girls Aloud vocalist Cheryl betwixt 2016 and 2018, and the mates had a son, Bear, successful 2017.

The vocalist 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 big Steven Bartlett.

He admitted his addiction to intoxicant continued during the Covid pandemic, but successful 2023 helium posted a YouTube video confirming helium was astir six months sober aft astir 100 days successful a US rehab facility.