Liam Payne fans' incredible act of loyalty to star's dad at Argentina hotel

Liam Payne's heartbroken father, Geoff, was protected by One Direction fans arsenic helium visited the edifice wherever his lad died to work tributes among the flowers placed outside

Fans of One Direction came unneurotic successful an incredibly moving enactment of loyalty to Liam Payne's begetter Geoff arsenic helium arrived astatine the Argentina edifice wherever his lad died this week.

Parents Geoff and Karen Payne near "in a hurry" astatine astir midnight arsenic quality of Liam's death reached their location successful Wolverhampton, England connected Wednesday. When helium arrived astatine the present infamous CasaSur edifice successful Buenos Aires, dada Geoff was greeted by galore fans of Liam who person formed a vigil since the quality broke.

Fans had besides near flowers, letters and cards extracurricular the lobby arsenic they paid their respects to Liam, which Geoff took clip to read. To let the grieving dada to bash truthful successful peace, One Direction fans agreed to signifier a shield astir him, utilizing backpacks and their hands to artifact section media cameras.

One instrumentality shared video footage of the moving scenes connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, which was reported connected Argentinian unrecorded quality transmission Todo Noticias (TN).

Captioning the video, the One Direction instrumentality wrote: "The fans fought the property and paparazzi trying to support Liam's dada and the sanctuary. They're inactive with their hands up successful the aerial trying to artifact the property from filming wrong the hotel. So overmuch emotion and respect for them. #RIPLiamPayne "

Their actions were praised by different fans connected societal media, with 1 commenting connected the video: "What a heavy and meaningful tribute. God bless each those who person been affected by the tragic passing of Liam particularly his small boy, parents and the remainder of his family." This was echoed by another, who wrote: "It’s genuinely heartwarming to spot fans rally unneurotic to support Liam’s family; their enactment speaks volumes astir the community’s emotion and respect."

A 3rd commented: "It's genuinely a large show to spot the fans supported his fav person's household erstwhile it needed the most."

Following the tragic quality of Liam's death, his household said successful a statement: "We are heartbroken. Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul. We are supporting each different the champion we tin arsenic a household and inquire for privateness and abstraction astatine this atrocious time."

In an authoritative statement, Argentinian constabulary disclosed that the father-of-one had "jumped from the balcony of his room", seemingly dispelling immoderate notions of an accidental autumn oregon foul play. It's believed Liam had been nether the power of portion oregon drugs, section media reports. In a hopeless telephone made to exigency services, edifice unit requested 'urgent' enactment conscionable earlier his death.

Police are said to person been called to reports astatine the edifice of a "man acting aggressively astatine the edifice who could beryllium nether the effect of portion oregon drugs". It's believed that Liam fell from astir 13 oregon 14 metres and suffered "very superior injuries incompatible with life." Police accidental the euphony star’s edifice country had been "in implicit disarray" with "various items broken".

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