Liam Payne's father given heartbreaking news 'he could be waiting 10 days' before 31-year-old's body can be flown home - as he makes vow to Argentinian police

Liam Payne's heartbroken begetter has been warned helium could person to hold 10 days for support to instrumentality his son's assemblage home.

Geoff Payne arrived successful Buenos Aires past week to formally place his lad and bring him location aft the 31-year-old erstwhile One Direction prima fell to his decease from a edifice balcony.

The 66-year-old centrifugal mechanic visited the morgue wherever his lad is being held and spoke with the Argentine Ministry of Justice officials who are investigating the circumstances astir the tragedy.

He besides visited the boutique CasaSur Palermo Hotel wherever his lad died and thanked fans for their tributes and vigil.

A post-mortem recovered that the vocalist died from aggregate injuries accordant with falling 45ft from the balcony of his suite successful Palermo territory of the city.

But prosecutors are treating his decease arsenic 'inconclusive' portion they await the results of toxicological examinations.

And past night, Prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea, the pb investigator, warned Mr Payne it could beryllium 10 days earlier the introspection results travel backmost from the laboratory and that helium would not beryllium capable to instrumentality his son's assemblage location before.

'Geoff has been told it mightiness instrumentality 10 days for the tests to beryllium completed and for him to instrumentality Liam home,' a household person revealed.

'He is uncovering the full concern truly tough. Geoff wholly heart-broken astatine losing his son.

'But helium has vowed to bash close by Liam and volition not spell location without him.

'It is the uncertainty of not knowing erstwhile this ordeal volition beryllium implicit is what helium is uncovering precise hard to woody with.

'The Argentine officials accidental they expect the results to instrumentality 10 days, but it mightiness beryllium a batch little clip than that.'

Last nighttime Mr Payne met with the authoritative who is starring the probe into his son's death, the caput of the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 14, Andrés Esteban Madrea.

Mr Madrea gave Mr Payne an update connected the advancement of the lawsuit and discussed whether the details of the cases should beryllium kept private.

Geoff Payne said helium wanted the lawsuit to beryllium transparent and open.

He added that helium was consenting to 'testify astir everything helium knows astir his son's beingness that could assistance the investigation'.

The authoritative told Mr Payne the 'toxicological and histopathological' examinations of his son's remains had not yet been completed, and that helium could not merchandise the assemblage until helium had the results.

Mr Madrea added that forensic examinations were besides being carried retired connected 'mobile phones, computers, photographs and videos from information cameras' recovered astatine the hotel.

He told Mr Payne that edifice unit were being questioned amid claims that his son, who had ditched his maltreatment of drugs and alcohol, had been preyed connected by cause dealers astatine the boutique venue.

Mr Madrea besides offered Mr Payne constabulary extortion owed to the high-profile quality of his son's death.

In a connection Argentina's Ministry of Justice said: 'The caput of the National Prosecutor's Office successful Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 14, Andrés Esteban Madrea, met yesterday with Geoff Payne, the begetter of British instrumentalist Liam James Payne, who was recovered dormant past Wednesday successful a edifice successful the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, to pass him successful idiosyncratic astir the advancement of the investigation.

'The typical of the Public Prosecutor's Office informed the begetter that toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy person not yet been completed, and their results are indispensable to determine connected the merchandise of the body.

'Meanwhile, arsenic portion of the inquiry, examinations are being conducted connected compartment phones, computers, photographs, and information camera videos, which necessitate a longer investigation time.

'Additionally, galore witnesser statements person been taken to reconstruct the victim's past hours and the country of the events, a process that is inactive ongoing involving edifice staff, acquaintances, method and aesculapian professionals, and others connected to the unfortunate done his work.

'Furthermore, the consular practice of the United Kingdom was informed astir the ineligible proceedings relating to the lawsuit since the unfortunate is simply a British citizen, and due enactment was taken of their connection of collaboration.

'To respect the representation of the victim, each developments arising from the probe volition archetypal beryllium communicated to the family, and fixed the precocious nationalist vulnerability of the musician, connection volition beryllium constricted to the organization channels of the Public Prosecutor's Office.'

Prosecutor Andreas Esteban Madrea has brought immoderate of Argentina's astir high-profile cases to court.

Mr Madrea secured a 12-year condemnation against a clergyman who had raped 2 nuns, helium brought corruption municipality hallway officials who allowed an unsafe nightclub that collapsed sidesplitting 2 and injuring 50 to enactment unfastened to court, and helium secured a $2 cardinal good against erstwhile Boca Juniors shot prima Alberto Marcico for fraud and breach of contracts.

Officials besides confirmed yesterday that arsenic good arsenic the ongoing forensic tests, investigators were inactive analysing 'mobile phones, computers, photographs and CCTV footage', saying: 'They volition necessitate a longer play of analysis.'

Last week prosecutors confirmed they had interviewed 3 edifice workers and 2 women who had spent clip with the One Direction prima earlier helium died.

They said contiguous the enactment to portion unneurotic the singer's past hours was continuing with 'hotel workers, acquaintances, method and aesculapian professionals and different radical linked to him done his work.'

Mr Payne is known to person spent clip with Argentinian businessman Rogelio Nores, who is understood to person fixed a connection to investigators.

The singer's household person been reassured they volition beryllium the archetypal to person immoderate caller accusation that comes out, pursuing the leaking of pictures from Liam's edifice country past week that were published successful Argentinian media and showed a achromatic pulverization connected a table which is inactive being analysed.

Prosecutors person categorised the decease arsenic 'inconclusive' but said determination is nary grounds astatine this signifier pointing to immoderate third-party engagement and person said helium whitethorn person plunged from his balcony successful a 'in a authorities of semi oregon full unconsciousness' during a substance-induced psychotic episode.

The archetypal autopsy, performed past Wednesday night, showed Mr Payne had died of aggregate trauma injuries which had caused 'internal and outer haemorrhaging.'

A edifice manager phoned 911, the UK equivalent of 999, past Wednesday day conscionable earlier the vocalist died to say: 'We person a impermanent who's disconnected his caput connected drugs and is destroying everything successful his room. We request idiosyncratic to come.'

In a 2nd telephone helium added: 'we request you to nonstop idiosyncratic urgently because, well, I don't cognize if the guest's beingness is successful danger. They indispensable beryllium successful a country that has a balcony. And well, we're a small spot disquieted he'll bash something, that he'll enactment his beingness astatine risk.'

Police trying to find retired who supplied Mr Payne with the drugs helium is suspected of taking earlier his decease are said to person looked into whether his trader was a edifice worker.

Pals of the vocalist person claimed helium was cleanable conscionable days earlier the tragedy.

Sources adjacent to the vocalist said helium entered Argentina connected September 30 and was forced to widen his enactment determination owed to issues renewing his expiring American visa.

He arrived with his woman Kate Cassidy but she near Buenos Aires to instrumentality to the States soon earlier the tragedy.