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‘On the run’ hotel worker accused of selling Liam Payne drugs hands himself in

The One Direction star died on October 16.

It was not immediately clear if it was number 200 of a main road called General Hornos near Buenos Aires’ famous La Boca neighbourhood or the same location in a smaller residential street a short drive from Pereyra’s home address in Lomas de Zamora on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. In November TMZ published footage showing Payne stepping out of a lift at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel and chatting with a man it identified as Pereyra shortly before the singer died, claiming the 31-year-old Brit had asked him for ‘seven grams of the same drug he had handed him earlier’. Judge Bruniard in her indictment ruling accused the businessman, currently banned from leaving Argentina because of the charges against him, of ‘failing in his duty of care, assistance and help’ towards the singer and ‘abandoning him to his fate, knowing he couldn’t fend for himself, aware he suffered multiple additions to alcohol and cocaine and fully conscious of the state of intoxication, vulnerably and defenceless he was in’.

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