The body of singer Liam Payne will be returned to his family and repatriated to the United Kingdom.
The 31-year-old artist was found dead on October 16 in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
He had fallen heavily from his hotel balcony.
Liam Payne's body to be transferred”at the latest” Monday November 4 in the United Kingdom. According to information from ABC News and the Argentine newspaper The Nation the body of the British singer was handed over to his family by the Argentine authorities. The former member of the group One Direction died at the age of 31 on October 16, in a hotel in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. He had fallen heavily from his bedroom balcony, falling three stories. THE “multiple trauma“and the”internal and external bleeding” caused the death of the artist, according to the preliminary results of the autopsy.
“A crisis due to substance abuse”
The singer's father, Geoff Payne, traveled to Argentina just after the tragedy to obtain the repatriation of his son's body to England. Toxicology studies carried out following his death showed that Liam Payne was drugged at the time of his fall. He allegedly used several types of products, including “pink cocaine”, a mixture of drugs including methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA. According to the prosecutor's office in charge of the investigation, the British popstar was then crossing “some kind of crisis due to substance abuse“.
The autopsy also revealed that he was alone at the time of the tragedy, supporting the scenario of an accident linked to drug consumption. According to ABC News, CCTV images also show that Liam Payne passed out on his balcony, a bottle of whiskey in his hand. Based on these images, the hypothesis of suicide has also been ruled out for the moment.
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Liam Payne's funeral is expected to take place in the coming days. Last Tuesday, the release of a posthumous song recorded with American artist Sam Pounds was finally postponed. “Even though we all love the song, it's not time yet, had justified the latter. We are all still mourning Liam's passing and I want the family to grieve in peace and prayer. We will all wait.”
