Liam Payne’s body will be released to his family, police sources say

By Liam Payne The body will be given to his family, two police sources told ABC News.

Sources said prosecutors authorized the release of Payne’s body to his father, Geoff Payne.

According to the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, Geoff Payne has been in the Argentine capital since October 18, trying to repatriate his son’s body for burial in his native England.

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Previously, sources said the release of Payne’s body was dependent on the court’s findings in the criminal case.

The One direction The singer died on October 16 after falling from the third floor balcony of his hotel room at the CasaSur hotel in Palermo, Buenos Aires.

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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.

Since his death, A partial autopsy discovered that Payne had several substances in his system that day when he fell to his death from his hotel room.

The preliminary report which was released a day after his death, stated that the singer died of “multiple traumas” and “internal and external bleeding”. Twenty-five injuries were reported to his body, all as a result of his fall, the autopsy revealed.

Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said surveillance footage reviewed by police appeared to show multiple drug exchanges between a dealer and a hotel employee before Payne’s death.

Sources said police are still investigating whether the hotel employee supplied Payne with drugs.

Argentine officials raided the hotel on October 23 as part of the ongoing investigation into the late singer’s death.

Singer Liam Payne dies after falling from hotel in Argentina: Police

Apparently there is CCTV footage showing Payne sleeping in the hotel lobby with a bottle of whiskey in his hand, sources told ABC News.

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

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.

ABC News has contacted the hotel for comment.

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