Liam Payne’s friend, hotel workers exonerated from negligent homicide, manslaughter charges

nme.com:

Liam Payne‘s friend Roger Nores and two hotel workers have been exonerated of the charges against them for the former One Direction singer’s death last year.Payne tragically died on October 16 following a fatal fall from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Argentine prosecutor’s office has revealed that the 31-year-old’s cause of death was due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding.Following Payne’s death, five people were arrested and charged in connection to his death.

Among those arrested were Nores and two members of staff at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel Gilda Martin and Esteban Grassi.Nores was charged with negligent homicide, while Martin and Grassi were charged with manslaughter.

All charges against the three of them have now been dropped, per a Rolling Stone report.Nores, who had been friends with Payne and was with him in Argentina, claimed to have left the singer on his own on the day of his death, though he maintained that he’s never provided the singer with drugs or alcohol, and had in the past reached out the Payne’s family out of worry for the singer’s well-being.Rolling Stone reports that a panel of judges from Argentina’s Court of Appeals ruled that Nores, Martin and Grassi played no part in Liam Payne’s death.The ruling, obtained by Rolling Stone, reads on Nores’ exoneration: “It is possible that, if he had stayed in his company at all times, [Payne] would not have obtained the drugs and alcohol in the quantities necessary for the state of intoxication he exhibited at the time of his death.