A toxicology examination on Liam Payne’s physique has not been accomplished but, authorities in Argentina have mentioned – amid reviews of cocaine being present in his system.
The previous One Route star died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, final week after falling from a third-floor balcony on the Casa Sur lodge.
A consultant of the general public prosecutor’s workplace met along with his father Geoff Payne, who’s in Argentina, to replace him on the investigation into the 31-year-old’s dying.
Andrés Esteban Madrea advised Mr Payne that toxicology and histopathological exams haven’t but been accomplished and their outcomes are wanted earlier than the physique will be launched to his household.
It was reported final evening that an Argentine official mentioned an preliminary toxicology report had discovered the presence of cocaine, a category A drug, in Payne’s physique on the time of his dying.
The preliminary report was handed to native prosecutors, the official mentioned, however they confused it doesn’t provide an correct studying of how a lot of the drug was circulating in his blood when he died.
The ultimate toxicology outcomes aren’t anticipated to be made public for a number of weeks.
Argentine investigators discovered what gave the impression to be narcotics and alcohol strewn round damaged objects and furnishings in Payne’s lodge room, main the general public prosecution to surmise he had suffered a substance abuse-induced breakdown across the time of his fall.
The prosecution mentioned Payne might have been in a state of “semi or total unconsciousness” when he fell from his lodge balcony. Payne suffered “extremely serious injuries” after touchdown within the courtyard of the CasaSur Resort, police mentioned.
Minutes earlier than his dying, the lodge’s desk supervisor advised a 911 operator there was “a guest drunk with drugs and alcohol” who was “breaking everything in the room”.
