Liam Payne: 3 charged in former ‘One Direction’ star’s death

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Three people have been arrested and charged in connection to One Direction star Liam Payne’s death last month.

According to a statement from the Argentinian Public Prosecutor’s Office, three people have been charged with “crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

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Those three people include someone who was with him on a “daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” That person was charged with “crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death.” The Prosecutor’s Office says that charge holds a possible sentence of five to 15 years in prison.

The other two people are a hotel employee believed to have provided Payne with cocaine and a drug supplier. They have both been charged with “the crime of supplying narcotics.”

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The Prosecutor’s Office says the investigation into his death found that he was “not fully conscious” at the time of his fall from a hotel balcony. They also ruled out that the fall was “self-harm of any kind” or that it was a “conscious or voluntary act.”

The people who were arrested have not been publicly identified.

The 32-year-old singer died on Oct. 16 when he fell from the third floor balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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