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Liam Payne: Argentinian officials charge three with manslaughter

Two others charged with drug supply in connection with One Direction singer’s fall from Buenos Aires hotel balcony

Three people have been charged with manslaughter, and two others with drug supply, in connection with the death of Liam Payne, who was allegedly seen being “dragged to his room” while unconscious moments before he fell from his balcony in Argentina earlier this year. Braian Paiz, a waiter at a restaurant in Puerto Madero, an affluent area of Buenos Aires, and Ezequiel Pereyra, an employee of the Casa Sur, were charged with supplying narcotics and detained. Forensic experts concluded Payne fell on to the hotel restaurant’s patio “without any sign of defence”, causing multiple injuries to his body, particularly his head, after directly hitting the concrete support of an umbrella.

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