Liam Payne's tragic final hours revealed in court as five charged over his death

A judge has shared details of Liam Payne's final hours as the Argentinian Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed five people have been charged over the singer's death.

Two people have been charged with supplying drugs and three have been charged with negligent homicide, akin to manslaughter. It comes after the One Direction star tragically fell from his room while staying at the CasaSur Palermo hotel on October 16.

Among the group are Payne's friend Roger Nores. Members of staff at the CasaSur Palermo hotel, including chief receptionist Esteban Grassi and head of security Gilda Martin, have been charged with negligent homicide. Waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, and hotel employee Ezequiel David Pereyra, 21, have been accused of selling Liam drugs. Supplying drugs carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence, while negligent homicide carries a sentence of one to five years in Argentina.

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The judge and public prosecutor have issued a statement sharing details regarding Liam's final moments, with his death being branded as "foreseeable". According to court documents, Liam had been "demanding" drugs and alcohol while staying at the hotel and was left "unable to stand" on October 16 following his "consumption of various substances".

Rogelio Nores, chief executive officer of Stoneway Capital Corp
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It was further claimed that the singer was "dragged" to his room by the receptionist and two other people and that the manager had allowed this to happen "at least by omission".

The judge went on to suggest that, considering Liam's access to the balcony in the room and his "altered consciousness", the "proper thing to do was to leave him in a safe place and with company until a doctor arrived".

Nores, Liam's friend, was also accused of leaving the singer alone in the hotel in a "state of vulnerability" even though he knew about Liam's past addiction issues and that Nores could "not trust that the rest of the hotel staff would act appropriately".

Liam Payne attends the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on August 20, 2018
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Liam died aged 31 after falling from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. On November 7, a report from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office determined that traces of "alcohol, cocaine and prescription antidepressants" had been found in Liam's system. Officials also ruled out suicide, explaining that "in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it".

According to the report, the father-of-one, whose tragic death has been linked to a substance-induced "psychotic episode", "did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself in the fall, so that, for the moment, it can be inferred that he may have fallen in a state of semi- or total unconsciousness".

Handout photo released by the Buenos Aires Police showing a candle and traces of white powder on a table of the hotel room where late British musician Liam Payne was staying in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024
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In the new document released on Monday, it was hypothesised that Liam had "tried to leave the room through the balcony and thus fell".

Earlier this month, it was reported that Roger Nores had refused to answer questions from an investigating judge probing the singer's death. Nores has vehemently denied claims that he abandoned his friend before he plunged from his balcony after reports he was acting 'erratically' in the hotel lobby.

Hotel workers made two 911 phone calls before Liam was found dead. A caller appearing to be the chief receptionist said they had a guest who had taken "too many drugs and alcohol", and was "trashing the entire room", before the line cut out. In a second call, the same caller warned the guest's life "may be in danger" as the room had a balcony, and asked the operator to send someone "urgently".

Speaking in a TMZ documentary investigating Liam's death and final hours that aired earlier this month, Mr Nores said his friend was 'in good spirits and perfectly balanced' the day he died.

In a statement prior to the documentary's release, he said: "I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened. There were over 15 people at the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I could have never imagined something like this would happen."

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