3 days Ago By BANG - Entertainment News
Liam Payne’s death was “foreseeable”. The late One Direction singer, 31, plunged to his death from the third-floor balcony of his room at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 October – and a judge has now told of the performer’s final hours in court papers as five people were charged in connection with the tragedy. Describing Liam’s shock passing as “foreseeable”, Judge Laura Bruniard repeated the theory in French documents the performer “tried to leave the room through the balcony and thus fell”.
Liam’s representative Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nores is charged with negligent homicide and is accused of leaving Liam on his own in the hotel where he died in a “state of vulnerability”. Hotel workers, head receptionist Esteban Grassi and chief of security Gilda Martín are also charged with manslaughter. Braian Paiz, 24, has been charged with supplying narcotics for payment, alongside hotel employee Ezequiel Pereyra, 21, who is also charged with supplying drugs to Liam on two occasions days before his death.
Both have been refused bail. Toxicology tests have revealed that before his death, Liam had traces of alcohol, cocaine, and a prescription antidepressant in his body. Judge Bruniard also said about the two hotel employees she has charged with manslaughter about how they let Liam return to his room even though he had binged on drink and drugs: “I consider that they didn’t act maliciously with regards to the singer’s death but they were reckless in facilitating his transfer to his room by taking him there.
“They created a legally unacceptable risk and Liam Payne’s death is the result. “Liam wanted to climb over the balcony, fell into the abyss and died.” The judge added Liam had been “demanding” drugs and alcohol while staying at the hotel and said on the day of his shock passing he was “unable to stand” in the hotel lobby due to “consumption of various substances”.
Court documents also showed the judge said just before 5pm on the day he died Liam was clearly “unable to look after himself” and had “clearly fainted” in the hotel lobby. The singer was then “dragged” to his room by the receptionist and two others, which the manager allowed to happen “at least by omission”. Judge Bruniard added Liam’s “altered” consciousness and access to a balcony from his hotel room meant the “proper thing to do” would have been to “leave him in a safe place and with company until a doctor arrived”.
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