Liam Payne death: Police are investigating whether a hotel worker gave the former One Direction singer drugs before his death, sources say

New details have emerged from the investigation Liam Payne‘s death.

Among the new details, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told ABC News that police reviewed surveillance footage that appeared to show multiple drug exchanges between a dealer and a hotel employee that occurred prior to Payne’s death. Sources said police are investigating whether the hotel employee supplied Payne with drugs.

Payne is also seen twice on CCTV footage sleeping in the hotel lobby with a bottle of whiskey in his hand, the sources told ABC News.

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Sources say police never believed Payne’s death was a suicide or that it was intentional.

Previously, sources told ABC News that a partial autopsy also showed he had multiple substances in his system that day, including “pink cocaine” – a recreational drug that is typically a mix of several drugs, including methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and others. as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack. According to the sources, a makeshift aluminum pipe for taking drugs was also found in his hotel room.

According to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, police also identified the presence of two female escorts at the hotel in the hours before Payne’s death.

Payne offered $5,000 USD to two female escorts who were allegedly called via an app from the lobby of the hotel where Payne was staying at the time of his death. He did not pay the escorts, sources said.

Sources also noted that a Rolex was also missing from Payne’s hotel room.

Payne’s body is expected to be released to his family next week, sources said.

Payne’s father, Geoff, has been in Buenos Aires since Oct. 18 and is trying to repatriate his son’s body for burial in England, British Embassy officials in Buenos Aires said. The release of Payne’s body is dependent on the court’s findings in the criminal case.

According to Argentine State Police, Payne died on October 16 after falling from his third-floor hotel room in Palermo, Buenos Aires. He was 31.

Emergency services were called to deal with a man who was acting erratically and possibly under the influence, Alberto Crescenti, the director of SAME, Buenos Aires Emergency Medical Services, previously told ABC News. Payne’s body was found in the hotel courtyard, where he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Crescenti.

A preliminary autopsy report from Argentina’s public prosecutor’s office showed on October 17 that Payne died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding.”

Twenty-five injuries were reported on Payne’s body. The report stated that Payne’s head injury was sufficient to cause death and that the cause of death was related to the height of his fall.