Liam Payne.
February 20, 2025
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) – An Argentine appeals court docket has dismissed involuntary murder costs in opposition to three folks accused within the dying of One Path singer Liam Payne, who plunged from a third-floor resort room in Buenos Aires final 12 months, in line with a ruling seen Thursday.
Two others accused of supplying medicine to the previous boy band star had been remanded in custody pending the beginning of their trial, in line with the court docket determination dated Wednesday.
Prosecutors mentioned Payne, 31, had consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant earlier than falling from the balcony of his resort room final October.
The previous One Path singer-songwriter had spoken publicly about scuffling with substance abuse and dealing with reaching fame at an early age.
His dying prompted a worldwide outpouring of grief from household, former bandmates and followers, with gatherings of 1000’s of mourners around the globe.
Costs had been dropped in opposition to Payne’s consultant in Argentina, the supervisor of the resort and the pinnacle of the resort’s reception.
However authorized proceedings will proceed in opposition to Ezequiel David Pereyra and Braian Nahuel Paiz — each twenty-something workers of the Casa Sur Resort — for allegedly supplying the medicine.
One of many highest-grossing dwell acts on the planet within the 2010s, One Path went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
