Release of Liam Payne’s body yet to be decided on, says Argentina prosecutor

The assemblage of Liam Payne cannot beryllium released until further toxicology reports person been completed, an Argentina authoritative said.

Payne’s begetter has travelled to Buenos Aires to put the repatriation of his assemblage aft the 31-year-old died falling from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel past week.

A typical of the Public Prosecutor’s Office informed Geoff Payne that the results of the toxicology and histopathological report, complementary to the post-mortem, would beryllium indispensable to determine connected the merchandise of his son’s body.

The last toxicology results are not expected to beryllium made nationalist for immoderate weeks, but the archetypal study suggested grounds of vulnerability to cocaine, an authoritative told the Associated Press, but stressed the archetypal results bash not connection an close speechmaking of however overmuch was circulating successful his humor erstwhile helium died.

For the investigation, adept reports are being carried retired connected mobile phones, computers and information cameras, which the Prosecutor’s Office said, “require a longer investigation time”.

A property merchandise from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office besides said that reconstruction of the events, which has progressive taking galore statements from edifice workers and aesculapian professionals, is “still ongoing”.

A post-mortem introspection study said Payne died of aggregate traumas and “internal and outer haemorrhage”.

Police officers and the exigency services recovered the euphony prima dormant astatine the country connected October 16 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”.

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 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 flooded successful for Payne since the quality of his death, including from his erstwhile spouse Cheryl, his One Direction bandmates, his woman Kate Cassidy, and euphony mogul Simon Cowell.

Payne’s chap bandmates – Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles – paid tribute to him arsenic good and a associated connection from the set said they were “completely devastated” and volition miss the vocalist “terribly”, adding the “memories we shared with him volition beryllium treasured forever”.

Thousands of fans of the vocalist gathered to retrieve him astatine memorial events successful the UK and galore different parts of the satellite implicit the weekend.

Payne recovered fame alongside his One Direction bandmembers erstwhile The X Factor creator Cowell enactment them unneurotic to signifier the lad set connected the ITV endowment amusement successful 2010.

Payne archetypal auditioned for The X Factor 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 singer’s household said they were “heartbroken” pursuing his death, adding: “Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul.”