Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
Liam Payne died last week.Last Wednesday (October 16), it was announced that the solo artist and former One Direction member had tragically died at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Argentinian prosecutor’s office has since shared that his cause of death was due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding.Earlier this week, it was revealed that Payne reportedly had pink cocaine and several other substances in his system at the time of his fatal balcony fall.
Sources told ABC News that results of a partial autopsy showed he had “pink cocaine” – a drug typically made up of a mix of substances including methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and others – as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack in his system.
The report went on to allege that a makeshift aluminium pipe had been recovered from the hotel room he was staying in at the time.Now, local news site La Nacion has reported that the Buenos Aires police department have raided the CasaSur hotel in search of further evidence.
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