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 [sud de Buenos Aires] after his lawyer announced that his client would surrender,” police sources said.
This is one of the employees of the Casa Sur hotel where the ex-member of boys band One Direction died on October 16 after falling from the balcony of the 3e floor of his room. On Friday, a first man prosecuted according to the prosecution for also having “delivered cocaine” was arrested.
Five people prosecuted
The Argentine courts established that there had been a “supply of drugs for money” and ordered the detention of the two alleged dealers. Five people in total are being prosecuted in the investigation into the accidental death of the 31-year-old singer.
According to the prosecution, 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 one to five years in prison.
