An preliminary toxicology report for ex-One Path singer Liam Payne, who died final week after falling from a third-floor resort balcony in Buenos Aires, confirmed that he had cocaine in his system after his loss of life, an Argentine official stated.
The ultimate toxicology outcomes should not anticipated to be made public for some weeks. However the preliminary toxicology report of the wildly well-known boy band star, handed to native prosecutors on Monday, steered proof of publicity to cocaine, the official stated, stressing that these preliminary outcomes don’t supply an correct studying of simply how a lot was circulating in his blood when he died.
The official spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not licensed to transient journalists. The preliminary report was extensively reported in native media on Monday.
Argentina’s public prosecution is investigating the case — which isn’t unusual when a loss of life is sudden or surprising.
Payne’s post-mortem concluded that the traumatic accidents that triggered his loss of life had been constant together with his three-story fall from the resort window. Prosecutors have dominated out anybody else being concerned.
Argentine investigators discovered what seemed to be narcotics and alcohol strewn about damaged objects and furnishings in 31-year-old Payne’s resort room, main the general public prosecution to surmise Payne had suffered a substance abuse-induced breakdown across the time of his fall. The prosecution stated Payne might have plunged from his resort room balcony in a state of “semi or complete unconsciousness.”
Images purportedly taken from inside Payne’s resort room printed by native media confirmed snowlike powder left on a desk and a smashed-in TV display screen. Police additionally found a blister pack of clonazepam, a central nervous system depressant, and over-the-counter drugs scattered amongst Payne’s belongings. Shortly earlier than Payne’s loss of life, the resort supervisor referred to as 911 to report a visitor performing aggressively and beneath the affect of medication and alcohol.
Investigators are additionally making an attempt to determine who bought Payne the medicine he took on the CasaSur Lodge in Palermo, an elegant neighborhood of the Argentine capital. Police have taken statements from at the least three resort workers, in addition to two ladies who visited Payne’s resort room a couple of hours earlier than his loss of life.
Followers and main pop trade figures world wide have reacted with an outpouring of grief.
The late singer’s father, Geoff Payne, was nonetheless in Buenos Aires assembly with the prosecutors and different native officers Monday in an effort to arrange the repatriation of the stays.
Argentine authorities anticipate to launch the physique subsequent week, clearing the way in which for Geoff Payne to fly dwelling and maintain a funeral again in England, the place on Sunday tons of of fervent One Path followers gathered to mourn the musician.
