Liam Payne 'made drugs request' to hotel worker amid new video three hours before death

dailyrecord.co.uk:

On the night Liam Payne plunged from his third-floor balcony he asked a hotel worker for "seven grams" of "cocaine", it was claimed overnight.TMZ published footage late yesterday which appeared to show the former One Direction star stepping out of a lift at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel.

In the clip he could be seen chatting with one of the three people being investigated over his death.It identified the man Liam had a rendezvous with, who has been identified locally as the hotel worker suspected of delivering drugs to the singer in a Dove soap box.

Argentinian news website Infobae reported overnight that an interaction by a lift in the basement of the Buenos Aires hotel happened around 2pm on October 16, three hours before Liam died.

This appeared to confirm the authenticity of the video published by TMZ which showed a time of 14.05 local time.As reported by the Mirror, it claimed the 31-year-old asked the hotel worker for “seven grams of the same drug the hotel worker had handed him earlier that same day”, believed to be cocaine, during the brief meeting.