Liam Payne, the previous One Path star, has died aged 31 in Argentina after falling from the third ground of a lodge in Buenos Aires, police say.
In a press release, police mentioned they found Payne’s physique after an emergency crew responded to an name within the upscale neighbourhood of Palermo on Wednesday.
On Thursday, police in Buenos Aires mentioned a preliminary post-mortem suggests Liam Payne died from exterior and inside bleeding accidents.
The police inspected the world the place Payne fell, and located objects together with alcohol and a telephone. Medicine was present in his room.
Payne had risen to world fame as a part of the much-loved boyband created on the X Issue TV present in 2010, together with Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.
In response to police in Buenos Aires, officers on the scene have been initially responding to studies “of an aggressive man who could have been beneath the consequences of medicine and alcohol”.
After they arrived on the lodge, officers have been informed a loud sound had been heard in an inside courtyard. Quickly after, they found the physique there. A police investigation was then launched.
Emergency medical companies director Alberto Crescenti informed native media that Payne had suffered “critical accidents” and that an post-mortem shall be carried out.
Mr Crescenti declined to reply questions concerning the circumstances of Payne’s fall from the balcony.
The star’s physique has been transferred to a morgue within the metropolis.
Police in Buenos Aires confirmed on Thursday that an inspection of the scene the place Payne fell has been carried out on the lodge’s floor ground.
They mentioned {that a} bottle of whiskey, a lighter, and a cell phone have been discovered.
Police mentioned “all the things signifies that the musician was alone when the autumn occurred”, and that he had died on the scene and there have been no accidents that instructed a 3rd get together had been concerned.
Within the lodge room the place Payne was staying, employees discovered “complete dysfunction” together with “numerous objects damaged.”
They mentioned this included a number of packets of medicine, together with Clonazepam, in addition to over-the-counter drugs.
A pocket book and passport have been additionally discovered on the scene.
Proof and finger prints have been collected and the room’s balcony has additionally been inspected to ascertain entry to it.
5 witness statements have been taken by the police on the evening, three from lodge staff and two from ladies who had been within the room with Payne earlier on, however weren’t there on the time of the autumn.
Payne posted on Snapchat simply hours earlier than the incident, saying: “It is a pretty day right here in Argentina” however the video was from earlier within the week the place he had hung out along with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
The UK International Workplace confirmed it was in contact with authorities in Argentina “relating to studies of the loss of life of a British man”. No additional particulars got.
As soon as information of his loss of life broke, followers started gathering exterior the Buenos Aires lodge the place the loss of life occurred, prompting police to cordon off the doorway. Some lit candles in his reminiscence.
“I used to be in my front room and my sister informed me Liam died,” a younger fan named Violeta Antier informed Reuters information company. “We could not consider it. We got here right here immediately to substantiate it was true.”
Ms Antier mentioned she noticed Payne on the Niall Horan live performance simply two weeks in the past.
One other girl cried as she defined why she had come to the lodge, telling Reuters in Spanish: “That is the one approach I’ve to say goodbye to him”.
One Path had world success with hits reminiscent of What Makes You Stunning and Story of My Life, whereas Payne additionally loved some solo success after the band introduced in 2015 that they have been happening hiatus the next yr.
In August this yr, Payne was introduced as a decide on a brand new Netflix expertise present alongside former Future’s Youngster singer Kelly Rowland and The Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger.
Payne, who was born in Wolverhampton within the UK, first tried for stardom when he auditioned for ITV expertise present The X Consider 2008 – however decide Simon Cowell informed him to “come again in two years”.
He did, impressing the judges extra in 2010, and was put along with 4 different solo hopefuls on the boot camp stage and One Path have been born.
The group had 4 UK primary albums and 4 primary singles in addition to topping charts all over the world, earlier than Zayn Malik left in 2015, prompting the band’s hiatus.
In 2017, Payne’s debut solo single Strip That Down, which peaked at quantity three on the Official UK Chart, and his collaboration with Rita Ora on the music For You – from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack – additionally reached the highest 10.
He started a relationship with Ladies Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy in 2016 they usually had a son, Bear, the next yr. The couple cut up in 2018.
The BBC has seen a stop and desist letter in opposition to the singer earlier this week from one other of Payne’s former companions, Maya Henry.
It “pertains to alleged egregious conduct”.
She had posted on social media accusing him of repeatedly contacting her. Payne didn’t reply to the accusations.