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Liam Payne did not commit suicide, say Argentine officials
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Liam Payne did not commit suicide, say Argentine officials

This last drug was not mentioned in the official autopsy report released this week by prosecutor Andrés Madrea. Instead, the report revealed “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant.” His death, Madrea says, was the result of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding” from the three-story fall.

According to Madrea, officials do not believe Payne’s death was intentional. Because the singer “did not adopt a reflexive posture” as he instinctively does even during an intentional jump, “it can be inferred that he may have fallen into a state of semi- or total consciousness.”

“Three additional medico-legal reports confirmed that all injuries were consistent with a high fall, excluding self-injury or third-party involvement,” Madrea’s statement said. “In light of this, forensic psychiatric experts were consulted to determine whether Payne may have been in a diminished or unconscious state at the time of the fall, which the prosecutor believes negates the possibility of voluntary action on his part.”

After an investigation that included reviewing more than 800 hours of security video from cameras inside and near the hotel, an inspection of the contents of Payne’s cellphone and interviews with “several dozen” people, including hotel staff and friends and Payne’s family, three people were arrested and charged with “felony abandonment of a person resulting in death,” as well as “supplying and facilitating narcotics,” Madrea says.

Those suspects have not been named, but according to Madrea, one was a hotel worker who twice obtained cocaine for Payne, the second is someone who supplied Payne with drugs twice on Oct. 14, and the third is someone who was with Payne “daily”. during his visit to Buenos Aires.

Rogelio “Roger” Nores, founder of an investment company that apparently he approached Payne after meeting him at a party in 2020, he said that though was traveling with Payne at the time of his death, that last person is not him. “I never abandoned Liam,” the Argentine millionaire he told him Daily Mail. “I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened. There were over 15 people in the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I could never have imagined that this would happen.”

“I gave my statement to the prosecutor on October 17 as a witness and since then I have not spoken to any police officer or prosecutor,” he said. “I wasn’t Liam’s manager, just my very dear friend.”

On Wednesday, Payne’s body was flown back to Britain, where he was released to his family, reports the BBC. Sun. reports that a date has been set for his funeral, but details of a plan for his memorial have yet to be publicly announced.