An Argentine choose confirmed fees towards 5 individuals in reference to the demise of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Path, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for having equipped him with medicine.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday the choose’s determination and mentioned that one of many two individuals ordered to be put underneath preventive jail — a type of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the resort in Buenos Aires the place Payne stayed till he died after falling from the balcony of his room in October.
The officer mentioned the opposite particular person was a waiter Payne met in a restaurant. The officer, who requested to not be recognized as a situation to speak concerning the ruling, mentioned that each face fees for supplying medicine and they should current themselves earlier than the choose.
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The choose additionally charged three different individuals with manslaughter, together with a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two managers of the resort. The official mentioned that they weren’t ordered to be held underneath preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary fees towards three individuals, however they didn’t reveal their names.
Payne fell from his room’s balcony on the third ground of his resort within the upscale neighborhood of Palermo within the Argentine capital. His post-mortem mentioned he died from a number of accidents and exterior bleeding.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned that Payne’s toxicological exams confirmed that his physique had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” within the moments earlier than his demise.
Payne’s post-mortem confirmed his accidents have been precipitated neither by self-harm nor by bodily intervention of others. The doc additionally mentioned that he didn’t have the reflex of defending himself within the fall, which suggests he may need been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina additionally dominated out the likelihood that Payne died by suicide.
One Path was among the many most profitable boy bands of latest occasions. It introduced an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne — like his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Kinds, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo profession.
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