Liam Payne's dad says he missed major milestone before son's tragic hotel death

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Liam Payne's devastated dad flew to Argentina to bring his son home to be laid to rest.The former One Direction star tragically fell to his death from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires in Argentina, on October 16.

His father Geoff Payne jetted out to South America after his son's holiday with girlfriend Kate Cassidy took a drastic turn.Geoff reportedly raised concerns in the lead up to his son's death that his son was on a worrying spiral.

The heartbroken parent travelled to the same hotel where his son died to organise repatriation of Liam as a police probe into the singer's death continued, The Mirror reports.The doting dad refused to leave the hotel with an eye-witness dad telling how Geoff was 'determined' to cling onto the memory of his son.

At Liam's funeral last Wednesday at St Mary's Church in Amersham, Geoff fulfilled the unbreakable promise he made to his family to remain by their boy's side as Liam's coffin was carried into the church.The dad-of-three reportedly always struggled to come to terms with losing his pop star son for the first time, when his overnight fame saw him tour across the globe with One Direction, playing in front of millions of adoring fans.