Liam Payne's death 'not being treated as suicide', say prosecutors

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Liam Payne's death was 'not intentional' after he plunged from a hotel balcony, prosecutors in Argentina have claimed. The 31-year-old pop star, who rose to fame in X Factor boyband One Direction, died after he fell from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel where he had been staying in Buenos Aires, on October 16.

New information released by the Public Prosecutor's Office, as seen by the Manchester Evening News, states that Payne was 'not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall'.

It comes after it was reported that three people had been charged with 'abandonment of a person followed by death' and the supply and facilitation of narcotics in connection with his death. READ MORE Three charged in connection with death of One Direction star Liam Payne Prosecutors said one of the accused was accompanying the singer on a daily basis in Argentina, while another was an employee at the hotel where Payne was staying.

The third person allegedly supplied drugs. While widespread reports state three people have been charged with offences linked to Liam Payne's death, under the Argentine judicial system it is believed they have instead been arrested and placed under official suspicion The prosecutor's office said in a statement, now translated to English: "The phenomenon of the lack of defense or self-preservation reflex in the fall, together with other relevant data from his consumption, allow us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall. "For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on