Liam Payne’s Body “To Be Flown Back Today To UK, With Funeral To Take Place This Week” – report
deadline.comLiam Payne’s body will be flown back to the UK in the next 36 hours, according to media in Argentina, where the former One Direction singer died last month.
The Sun newspaper reports that Payne’s funeral will take place in the UK this week, at St Paul’s Cathedral in Wolverhampton, the city where he grew up.
The singer, aged 31, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16. Payne’s father Geoff travelled to the Argentine capital a couple of days after the tragedy; he attended the city morgue and visited the hotel, where he stopped to look at flowers and tributes outside, and also spoke to fans.
The Sun reports that the investigation into Payne’s death took two weeks. Prosecutors said in a statement they believe he was “in a state of semi or total unconsciousness” during a substance-induced episode when he fell.
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