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Liam Payne, 31, was found dead at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this month after he reportedly fell from a third-floor balcony following a 'psychotic episode'
08:15, Tue, Oct 29, 2024 | UPDATED: 08:24, Tue, Oct 29, 2024
Liam Payne was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' (Image: Getty)
Liam Payne met a tragic end - fainting on his hotel balcony before plummeting to his untimely death, according to sources close to the incident.
The star, known for his time in boyband One Direction, was reportedly at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina when fate dealt a harsh blow earlier this month.
Aged just 31, he is believed to have lost consciousness and toppled from the third-floor balcony in what appears to be a disastrous turn of events.
In a statement that has sent ripples across the fan community, broadcast journalist Paula Varela detailed: "There is footage that is not being released to the media with the balcony scene where you see that Liam faints and tragically because of where he is, falls from that balcony. If he had been beside his bed he would have fallen on his bed."
The 31-year-old singer had been holidaying in Argentina (Image: Getty Images for ABA)
This unseen footage forms part of a chilling catalogue of CCTV evidence, which insiders say demonstrates the fall was accidental. Ms Varela, who has two children, insisted in a chat with Socios del Espectaculo, aired on Buenos Aires' channel Canal 13, that Liam's plunge was not intentional: "It's not that he jumped deliberately. This footage is in the official case files. There's a lad who's being investigated, he was working nights at the hotel.
"He struck up an excellent relationship with Liam. He disobeyed an order from the hotel management. What was the order he disobeyed? It was not to take anything into Liam's room."
The singer, who had been enjoying a getaway in Argentina and even popped into his friend Niall Horan's gig with his partner Kate Cassidy earlier in the month, tragically passed away. Prosecutors released a statement posthumously suggesting Liam was "in a state of semi or total unconsciousness" amid a substance-fueled 'psychotic episode' when he met his untimely end, reports the Mirror.
Tributes being laid in Liam Payne's honour in Wolverhampton, where the singer was born in 1993. Flowers, photos and candles have been left outside St Peter's Church. October 20 2024. (Image: Emma Trimble / SWNS)
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Alberto Crescenti, the head of the state emergency medical system, verified that the artist plummeted into an inner courtyard. In a conversation with Argentina's Todo Noticias TV, Crescenti disclosed: "A few minutes later [an] emergency team arrived and confirmed the death of this man who we later learned was from a musical group. He had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall. There was no way to do anything."
The toxicology findings indicated that given the position in which his body was discovered and the nature of the injuries sustained from the descent, 'it is presumed that Payne did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself and may have fallen in a state of semi or total unconsciousness. '.
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