BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine decide confirmed expenses in opposition to 5 individuals in reference to the dying of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Route, and ordered preventive jail for 2 of them for having equipped him with medicine.
A judicial officer confirmed Monday the decide’s choice and stated that one of many two individuals ordered to be put below preventive jail — a type of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the lodge in Buenos Aires the place Payne stayed till he died after falling from the balcony of his room in October.
The officer stated the opposite individual was a waiter Payne met in a restaurant. The officer, who requested to not be recognized as a situation to speak concerning the ruling, stated that each face expenses for supplying medicine and they should current themselves earlier than the decide.
The decide additionally charged three different individuals with manslaughter, together with a businessman who was with Payne in Argentina and two managers of the lodge. The official stated that they weren’t ordered to be held below preventive jail.
In November, prosecutors filed preliminary expenses in opposition to three individuals, however they didn’t reveal their names.
Payne fell from his room’s balcony on the third flooring of his lodge within the upscale neighborhood of Palermo within the Argentine capital. His post-mortem stated he died from a number of accidents and exterior bleeding.
Prosecutors additionally stated that Payne’s toxicological exams confirmed that his physique had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” within the moments earlier than his dying.
Payne’s post-mortem confirmed his accidents had been induced neither by self-harm nor by bodily intervention of others. The doc additionally stated that he didn’t have the reflex of defending himself within the fall, which suggests he might need been unconscious.
Prosecutors in Argentina additionally dominated out the likelihood that Payne died by suicide.
One Route was among the many most profitable boy bands of latest instances. It introduced an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne — like his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Kinds, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo profession.
