Former member of the boy band One Direction, British musician Liam Payne, had consumed alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants before dying on October 16 when he fell from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, said, Thursday, November 7, Argentine justice.
“The results of the toxicological studies – already communicated to his family – revealed that, in the moments preceding his death and for at least his last seventy-two hours, Payne presented in his body a polyconsumption of alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants »says the Argentine prosecutor's office in a press release, specifying that three people have been charged with selling drugs and abandoning a vulnerable person.
Without specifying the names of the people involved, the prosecution specified that the person who accompanied Liam Payne daily during his stay in Buenos Aires is charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death”, an offense punishable by five to fifteen years in prison, and supply of narcotics.
A hotel employee “must answer for twice supplying cocaine to Liam Payne during his stay”and a third person is “charged with supplying narcotics on two occasions at two different times on October 14”.
The prosecution also confirmed the first results of the autopsy suggesting that the injuries on the victim's body were compatible with those of a fall, and that self-mutilation or “physical intervention of third parties” were excluded.
The autopsy revealed that on Payne's hands “no “defensive” type injury has[avaient] was found, that all the injuries were vital and produced simultaneously with each other”. In other words, due to these injuries and the position of the body on the ground, the autopsy estimated that “Payne did not adopt a reflex posture to protect himself [dans la chute] and that he may have fallen into a state of semi-or total unconsciousness”. A thesis validated Thursday by the prosecution. “Payne was not fully conscious or in a state of marked diminution or abolition of consciousness at the time of the fall,” he clarified.
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