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FRED KELLY: I spent weeks with the prime suspect in the Liam Payne tragedy. Here's the shocking thing he told me in his darkest moment - and my fresh questions about this troubling death
Six weeks after Liam Payne was laid to rest in a churchyard in Amersham, 7,000 miles away in Buenos Aires the investigation into the circumstances of his death has taken a decisive turn.
Payne, who had been in and out of rehab for years, died on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of his suite at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, where he had been staying as he awaited the renewal of his American visa. Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, who met Payne on October 2 while waiting tables at the exclusive Cabana Las Lilas restaurant in Puerto Madero – where steak flambéed in cognac costs £108 – has been charged with supplying the star with drugs in exchange for money. My investigation into the CCTV footage from the hotel raised a number of urgent questions – not least whether staff could have saved Payne's life by immediately calling an ambulance after he'd lost consciousness, seemingly under the influence of drugs, rather than taking him back to his suite, with its balcony.
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