Death of Liam Payne –
A second suspect turns himself in to Buenos Aires police
A 21-year-old man has admitted delivering drugs to the British singer. He was part of the hotel staff where the star died.
Five people in total are being prosecuted in the investigation into the accidental death of the 31-year-old singer.
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A second man suspected of supplying drugs to British singer Liam Payne before his death in October 2024 in a Buenos Aires hotel surrendered to police on Tuesday.
“The 21-year-old young man went to the Barracas police station (south of Buenos Aires) after his lawyer announced that his client would surrender,” police sources told AFP.
This is one of the employees of the CasaSur hotel where the ex-member of the boy band One Direction died on October 16 when he fell from the balcony of his room at 3e floor.
Two drug dealers incarcerated
On Friday, a first man prosecuted, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, for also having “delivered cocaine” was arrested.
The Argentine courts established that there had been “supply of drugs for money” and ordered the detention of the two alleged dealers.
Five people prosecuted
Five people in total are being prosecuted in the investigation into the accidental death of the 31-year-old singer.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, it is “RLN, agent of the victim [en Argentine] and who accompanied Payne on this trip to Buenos Aires to renew his American visa, the hotel manager, GAM, and the hotel front desk manager, ERG.
Left free, they face sentences of 1 to 5 years in prison.
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