Tragic star Liam Payne died by huge misfortune after fainting while standing on his hotel room balcony, a source has claimed.
The 31-year-old One Direction singer is said to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time when he fainted in his room at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this month. As a result, he is believed to have plunged from the third-floor balcony in a cruel twist of fate, reports the Mirror.
Broadcast journalist Paula Varela said: "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."
Ms Varela, 45, says the horrific CCTV footage indicates Liam did not jump deliberately from the balcony. However, authorities continue to investigate the star's death.
Ms Varela, a mum of two, told Socios del Espectaculo, a show broadcast on Buenos Aires-based TV station Canal 13: "It’s not that he jumped deliberately. This footage is in the official case files."
Liam had been holidaying in Argentina and attended old pal Niall Horan's concert with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy in the country at the beginning of the month. Prosecutors said in a statement after Liam’s death they believed he was in “in a state of semi or total unconsciousness" during a substance-induced "psychotic episode" when he fell.
Head of the state emergency medical system, Alberto Crescenti, confirmed that the singer fell into an internal courtyard at the hotel. Speaking to Argentina's Todo Noticias TV channel, Crescenti said: "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 report stated that the position in which his body was found, along with the injuries from the fall, '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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