Argentina’s police have raided the Buenos Aires resort the place former One Path singer Liam Payne stayed earlier than dying final week after falling from a third-floor balcony.
A police particular investigations unit went to the Casa Sur resort on Wednesday evening on orders from the general public prosecutors’ workplace. Officers seized gadgets together with laptop laborious drives and pictures from resort cameras, a authorities official advised The Related Press on Thursday, talking on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t authorised to talk publicly.
The singer died October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony within the up-market, touristy Palermo district. In response to the post-mortem, Payne died from a number of accidents in addition to each inner and exterior bleeding attributable to the autumn. His physique was discovered within the resort’s inner courtyard.
Preliminary investigations recommend the musician was alone and experiencing a “breakdown” because of consumption of drugs that haven’t but been decided. Following Payne’s dying, police discovered substances in his resort room, in addition to a number of destroyed objects and furnishings, in keeping with the general public prosecutors’ workplace.
The British boy band star had cocaine in his system, in keeping with a preliminary toxicology report printed by native press Monday and confirmed to the AP by a supply acquainted. Definitive outcomes aren’t anticipated to be made public for a number of weeks.
The Casa Sur resort has develop into a spot for Payne’s followers to pay their respects. They’ve left flowers, candles and images of the singer in a makeshift shrine round a tree on the resort’s entrance.
The singer’s father, Geoff Payne, is in Buenos Aires arranging the repatriation of his son’s physique, which is anticipated to be launched round Sunday.
Payne’s household, which incorporates his mom Karen Payne and his two sisters Ruth and Nicola, have expressed their devastation over the loss, as have his former bandmates. Artists and celebrities from varied nations proceed to share their grief.
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 Types, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson – pursued a solo profession.
The singer had posted on his Snapchat account that he travelled to Argentina to attend Horan’s live performance in Buenos Aires on October 2. He shared movies of himself dancing along with his girlfriend, American influencer Kate Cassidy, and singing alongside within the stands. Cassidy had left Argentina after the present, however Payne stayed behind.
