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The last photo of Liam Payne alive showed him being hauled up to his hotel room. Ten minutes later, he was dead. Now, one of the men who carried him and two others have been cleared. This doesn't stack up: FRED KELLY


This was a judgment with a sting in its tail. On Wednesday, three of the five people named in connection with the death of Liam Payne had all charges dropped against them in an Argentine court.

As someone with a forensic knowledge of the case, having reported on the One Direction star’s death in Buenos Aires last October, I was not in the least bit surprised to hear that the charges against his friend and manager Roger Nores had been dropped. Previous court documents had accused Nores of ‘abandoning’ Payne on October 16 – the fatal day when he fell from a balcony at the CasaSur Hotel – while ‘knowing that [the star] suffered from multiple addictions’. However, more to the point and as I revealed during my investigation last year, Payne only checked into the mid-market CasaSur having been ejected from the luxury Palacio Duhau-Park Hyatt hotel for ‘being a nuisance and disturbing the other guests and appear[ing] intoxicated’.

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