Three people have been charged in Argentina for crimes related to the death of Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
The British pop star, who was 31, died on October 16 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Prosecutors said one person who accompanied him had been charged with the abandonment of a person following their death and the supply and facilitation of drugs.
A hotel employee and another person have also been charged. Nobody has been named.
The late singer had alcohol, cocaine, and a prescription antidepressant in his system before his death, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office also said.
The toxicology results indicated that Payne “may have fallen into a state of semi or total unconsciousness,” it said.
The prosecutor’s office also said medical examinations confirmed that the singer’s injuries were “compatible with those caused by falling from a height”.
Examinations ruled out self-inflicted injuries or the intervention of other people, the office added.
Initial investigations suggest that the musician was alone and experiencing a “breakdown” due to consumption of substances that have not yet been determined.
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His body remained in Argentina while authorities conducted further toxicology and laboratory tests but was then released to family.
Payne rose to fame as a member of One Direction, a boy band formed on the British television series The X Factor in 2010.
