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Liam Payne’s dad, Geoff Payne, is prepared to assist authorities with the investigation of his son’s dying.
The Argentine Prosecutor’s Workplace confirmed to Us Weekly that Geoff has spoken to the case’s prosecutor, Dr. Andres Esteban Madrea, about “his want to analyze and to know what occurred” along with his son, Liam. Geoff additionally expressed that he’ll share with authorities what he is aware of about his son’s life that might doubtlessly support the investigation.
Geoff will stay in Argentina underneath “dynamic police custody till the tip of the judicial proceedings and given his state of logical commotion because of the dying of his son,” per the prosecutor’s workplace. In keeping with Madrea, the workplace’s prime precedence is to protect “the privateness of the household of the previous member of the band One Course.”
“Every little thing that arises inside the framework of the investigation will first be told to the household,” the division stated in a press release to Us. “And given the excessive public publicity that the musician had, the communication might be restricted to the institutional channels of the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace.”
One Course alum Liam Payne died on October 16, 2024, on the age of 31. That night, Us Weekly confirmed Payne had fallen to his dying from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The singer had sustained a cranial fracture and different severe accidents that had been too extreme for remedy. Native emergency responders […]
Us confirmed that Liam died at age 31 on Wednesday, October 16. The previous One Course singer suffered from a number of “severe accidents” following a falling from a third-story balcony at a Bueno Aires resort, per Buenos Aires emergency companies chief Alberto Crescenti.
Along with Geoff, Liam is survived by his mom Karen, older sisters Ruth and Nicola and 7-year-old son Bear whom he shared with ex Cheryl Cole.
“We’re heartbroken. Liam will eternally dwell in our hearts and we’ll keep in mind him for his variety, humorous and courageous soul,” Liam’s household instructed the BBC in a press release. “We’re supporting one another the very best we are able to as a household and ask for privateness and house at this terrible time.”
Liam’s dad arrived in Argentina after information broke of Liam’s dying. Outdoors the resort the place Liam died, followers put collectively an impromptu memorial for the singer with handwritten notes, letters, flowers and candles. Geoff was seen on the makeshift memorial, taking within the tributes and paying his respects.
In keeping with a 9-1-1 telephone name from the day of Liam’s dying, a resort receptionist known as the authorities to report a visitor who was “excessive on medicine” and “trashing” their room. The caller believed the unnamed visitor “could also be in peril,” per the BBC.
One week after his dying, ABC reported that Liam’s partial post-mortem confirmed that the musician had “pink cocaine” — a leisure drug that sometimes mixes methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA — cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack in his system on the time of his dying.
Liam was beforehand candid about his struggles with medicine and alcohol. Final 12 months, he revealed that he was 100 days sober after a stint in rehab.
With reporting by Luciana Arias
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