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Liam Payne’s body is due to be flown home to the UK next week after the beloved One Direction star died on October 16.
The X Factor star and boyband icon tragically fell from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, almost three weeks ago at the age of 31. He died instantly.
As authorities have been investigating the circumstances surrounding Payne’s death, his family has now been given an update on when they can lay him to rest.
The singer’s body will return home from South America by Monday ‘at the latest’ and his funeral is expected to take place in the days after.
Undertakers are believed to have moved the late pop star from a Buenos Aires morgue to the 1820s-founded British Cemetery in the northern part of the capital.
This was done after prosecutors gave his dad, Geoff Payne, permission to take his only son home.
According to local media, there is a ’48 hours maximum’ window for his repatriation once the embalming process is finished.
Geoff, who is also a dad to Payne’s older sisters Nicola and Ruth, first flew out to Argentina two days after his son’s fatal fall, attending a fan vigil at the hotel entrance and thanking them for their support.
Argentinian press has said: ‘All the documents are ready for the former One Direction singer to return to his homeland so a funeral can take place there next week.
‘When Geoff Payne reached Argentina on October 18, he was told the repatriation process could take between four and five days, but because of the circumstances surrounding his son’s death, things took longer than expected.’
Prosecutors have yet to confirm the results from Payne’s toxicology report and tissue tests.
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