Liam Payne’s physique is being ready for switch again to his native United Kingdom from Argentina.
A supply confirmed to Us Weekly that Payne’s stays can be transferred to the British Cemetery in Chacarita, the biggest cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to “start the embalming course of to protect the physique for the return journey” to London, England the place his funeral will happen. Liam’s farewell mass can be held on the metropolis’s famed Saint Paul’s Cathedral, after which he can be buried.
The supply additionally famous that the embalming course of “may take about 48 hours,” that means that Liam’s father, Geoff Payne, could return to the UK together with his son’s physique as quickly as Monday, November 4. In keeping with one other outlet, Argentina’s La Nación, Geoff was capable of repatriate his son’s physique after two weeks of bureaucratic processes.
Us confirmed on October 16 that Payne had died final month at age 31 after a fall from a 3rd flooring lodge balcony in Buenos Aires. He suffered “critical accidents” after falling from a third-story balcony at a lodge in Buenos Aires, in response to town’s emergency service chief Alberto Crescenti. A preliminary post-mortem revealed that Payne had died from “inside and exterior” hemorrhages.
A partial post-mortem report printed on October 21 indicated that the One Path singer additionally had a number of medication in his system, together with “pink cocaine,” cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack, on the time of his fall.
Final month, Dr. Cristian Poletti, a college professor and lawyer who focuses on prison legislation, defined in an unique interview with Us what would occur with Payne’s physique following his demise. (Poletti shouldn’t be concerned within the case.)
“What is going on with Liam Payne’s physique is basically that they should watch for the toxicological stories that often take from one to 2 weeks, from 7 to fifteen days, and till that result’s obtained they won’t launch the physique,” Poletti mentioned on October 22, including that “any demise suspected of criminality” would wish “a sure period of time.”
She famous {that a} toxicology report “takes from 7 to fifteen days,” including, “Till these research are performed and all the pieces that has to do with the post-mortem of the physique is confirmed, they won’t launch the physique, they won’t ship the physique to the household.”
Poletti continued, “In case they have been to ship it, they won’t permit the incineration of the physique. Nor will they permit them to take it overseas. That’s, as soon as the physique is totally launched, the household can do no matter they need. They are going to permit the discharge, they’ll permit the physique to journey to its native land. Earlier than that, they won’t do it.”
With reporting by Luciana Arias in Buenos Aires.