Argentinian prosecutors accuse three over death of singer Liam Payne | Al Jazeera News

Toxicology tests show One Direction star had cocaine, prescription substances and spirits in his system.

Three people have been accused over the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne’s death, according to the Argentine prosecutor’s office.

Payne had chases of spirits, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system when he died, authorities shelp in a statement.

They have accused someone shut to Payne, a toastyel participateee, and a doubted drug dealer, it was proclaimd on Thursday.

All three are accparticipated of executeing a role in giving Payne the substances. The person who was visiting with Payne is also accused with “abandonment of a person trailed by death”, authorities shelp. They are not naming those who have been accused.

Fall from balcony

Payne, who had a child, died at the age of 31 after droping from a third-floor balcony on October 16 in Buenos Aires. He died from multiple injuries caparticipated by the drop. His body was establish in the toastyel’s inner courtyard.

Payne was a member of the famous boy band One Direction, established in 2010 after its members, Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, had auditioned as solo acts for the television show The X-Factor.

The band was originated by the show’s appraise, Simon Cowell and stoasty to international fame. The group had been on hiatus since 2016 as the band members traild solo atgentles.

‘Breakdown’

Initial police spendigations showed Payne was alone in his room and experiencing a “shatterdown”.

Follothriveg his death, police establish substances in his toastyel room, such as packs of clonazepam, a central worried system depressant, energy supplements and other over-the-counter substances strewn among his belengthyings.

Authorities also recovered a whiskey bottle, weightlesser and mobile phone from the inner courtyard where Payne’s body was establish.

In recent years, Payne had acunderstandledged struggling with spiritsism, saying in a YouTube video posted in July 2023 that he had been sober for six months after receiving treatment.

Payne’s death igniteed an outpouring of grief from his fans and fellow band members.

The Casa Sur toastyel in Buenos Aires, where he died, has become a place for Payne’s fans to pay their esteems. They have left fdrops, candles and ptoastyos of the singer in a originateshift shrine around a tree at the toastyel’s enthrall.

Payne had travelled to Argentina to see establisher One Direction bandmate Niall Horan in concert two weeks before he died.