In the opinion of the prosecutor in charge of his case, Liam Payne did not commit suicide. This week, in an official announcement translated from Spanish to English, the 14th National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office in Argentina, headed by prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea, said it did not News that the former One Direction member intends to die.
Payne sadly died last month after falling from a three-storey balcony at a hotel in Bueno Aires – an incident immediately investigated by authorities – and reports from around the world subsequently reinforced tries to piece together Payne’s final moments to understand the tragic sequence of events that befell the pop star.
But now, prosecutors say they must “rule out the possibility that Payne committed a conscious or voluntary act” because “in his present state, he did not know what he was doing.”
After the October 16 tragedy, police arrested a hotel employee accused of supplying Payne with drugs and raided the home of another acquaintance, who was also detained. An examination revealed that Payne suffered 25 injuries after the fall. An autopsy revealed the former One Direction-er was under the influence of several drugs, including pink cocaine.
But according to a new report from E! News on Thursday (November 7), the prosecutor’s latest conclusion about the tragedy said in part: “Although other basic medical information from the victim’s clinical history must still be analyzed, accumulation, but the phenomenon of lack of self-defense or self-protection reflexes in the body. fall, together with other relevant data from his fall, allow us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was experiencing marked impairment or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall. fall.”
The findings add, “For the prosecution, this scenario would also eliminate the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on [victim’s part]because, in his present state, he neither knows what he is doing nor can understand it.” (Read the original statement here, translated by Us weekly.)
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After his death, fans first learned through the media that the One Direction member had apparently “jumped” from the third-floor balcony of his room at the Casa Sur hotel in the capital Argentina, according to a statement from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security. An autopsy later revealed that Payne died after suffering a debilitating skull fracture.
However, the mystery was immediately added to the mystery by an autopsy report from New York Post Office that suggests Payne may have been unconscious when he fell to his death; The tabloid also reported that two women were in the hotel room with the singer hours before his death.
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