An Argentine judge has approved the indictment of five people in connection with the incident. death of liam payneformer members of the music group One Direction, two of whom were sentenced to preventive prison for supplying drugs.
A judicial official confirmed the judge’s decision on Monday, saying one of the two people ordered to be held in a preventive prison, a type of pretrial detention, will be sent to Buenos Aires, where Mr. Payne later stayed until his death. He said he was a hotel employee. fall from the balcony What his room looked like in October.
The officer said the person was a waiter Payne had met at a restaurant. The officer, who requested anonymity as a condition of speaking about the sentence, said the two could be charged with supplying drugs and would have to appear before a judge.
The judge also charged three other people who were with Payne in Argentina, including a businessman and two hotel managers, with manslaughter. Officials said they have not been ordered to be held in a preventive prison.
The indicted hotel manager and front desk manager witnessed Payne in the hotel lobby intoxicated and unable to stand before he died, according to a news release from the prosecutor’s office. According to authorities, the caretaker allowed Payne to take her to her room with a balcony, and the reception manager asked her to stay with Payne in a non-threatening area until medical help arrived. He said he helped her get to her room. .
In November, Prosecutors filed the first indictment He filed a complaint against three people, but did not release their names.
Payne fell from the balcony of her third-floor hotel room in an upscale residential area of Palermo, the capital of Argentina. An autopsy revealed that he died from multiple injuries and external bleeding.
Prosecutors also said Payne’s toxicological tests showed his body had “traces of alcohol, cocaine, and prescribed antidepressants” shortly before death.
Mr. Payne’s autopsy determined that his injuries were not caused by self-inflicted injury or physical intervention by another person. The documents also say he had no reflexes to protect himself during the fall, suggesting he may have been unconscious.
Argentine prosecutors also ruled out the possibility that Mr. Payne died by suicide.
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