Police investigating the devastating death of singer Liam Payne are believed to be combing through every piece of evidence and have turned their attention to footage which captured his fall
CCTV footage capturing the moment Liam Payne fell to his death will be examined by police.
The former One Direction singer tragically died aged just 31 last month. He fell from the third floor of a hotel. An autopsy ruled that Liam had died instantly after his fall which caused “multiple traumatic injuries” and subsequently led to “internal and external haemorrhage.” The update comes after it emerged that Liam’s former neuropsychiatrist stated she was unable to continue treating the late star. She also issued a warning, noting that mixing alcohol and antidepressants could become fatal.
Earlier this week, judge Laura Bruinard who is overseeing the investigation ordered police to gain statements from the main suspects involved in Liam’s death including Roger Nores, Braian Paiz, hotel employee Ezequiel Pereyra, hotel secutity Esteban Reynaldo Grassi and manager Gilda Martín.
She also ordered that the Special Technological Investigations Division of the Superintendency for the Fight against Cybercrime of the City Police to carry out a further 22 examinations on different phones and electronic devices held by the suspects and witnesses following a series of raids.
CCTV capturing the moment of Liam’s heartbreaking death will be examined eight weeks after he died (
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Local media claims that an analysis has been ordered on a three-terabyte Western Digital hard drive, which had been handed to police by the Sacro restaurant, located next to the CasaSur Palermo Hotel where Liam had been staying. The One Direction singer had reportedly consumed drugs and alcohol before his tragic death.
Infobae claims that the singer fell over the balcony and hit his head on the base of an umbrella in the restaurant area. Now, police will examine the moment which captured Liam’s heartbreaking death as the footage has not yet been part of the extensive investigation carried out by prosecutor Andrés Madrea.
He had been staying at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel before his death (
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Liam’s friend, Roger Nores is being investigated under suspicion of abandonment – a claim he denies. Meanwhile, Others are being investigated for facilitation of narcotics. Last week, a judge ruled in favour of Madrea as the existing suspects and two more were summoned for questioning.
The interviews will take place between December 17 and December 19, over Zoom, following which Bruinard will have ten days to make a decision over whether to prosecute the defendants, or acquit them. Currently, Roger Nores’ iPhone and a laptop belonging to Liam are to be examined, despite being seized during previous raids.
During raids, the phones of two suspects and one from one of the sex workers who visited Liam had been seized. Elsewhere, a raid on the home of the second sex worker in Tigre also discovered five more devices which were subsequently seized. Local reports last week said prosecutors were considering bringing manslaughter charges against the hotel employees filmed carrying Liam out of the lobby shortly before his drink and drug-fuelled balcony plunge.