Liam Payne had consumed pink cocaine and other substances, according to the preliminary toxicology report | People

Liam Payne had multiple substances in his body when he died on October 16 after falling off the balcony of his room on the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires. According to the initial results of the toxicological report carried out on the singer, which was made public this Monday, October 21, by media such as ABC News and TMZa combination of drugs known as pink cocaine has been found in the body of the former member of One Direction, a new trendy drug that mixes several substances cheaper than cocaine, such as ketamine, MDMA (ecstasy) or speed.

According to TMZ From police sources in Buenos Aires, the toxicology results of the British artist, who died at the age of 31, show that he also had cocaine and crack in his body when he fell from a balcony in his room at the Casa Sur hotel, a fall that ended his life. life. ABC News It adds benzodiazepines to the cocktail of substances found in your body. According to the American media, an improvised aluminum pipe for consuming drugs was found in Payne’s room.

On Thursday of last week, the preliminary autopsy report was released. It stated that Payne had died from “multiple trauma” and suffered “internal and external hemorrhage,” according to sources from the Local Police of the Argentine capital. The autopsy, carried out by the forensic medical team of the Supreme Court of Justice, led by forensic experts Santiago Maffia Bizzozero and Víctor Cohen, confirmed that the musician died immediately from the impact of the fall. Criminalistics personnel found a “total disorder,” “with various items broken,” medications — they mentioned the anxiolytic Clonazepam, energizers and over-the-counter medications — and alcohol in the hotel room where he was staying, and in which, according to everything It seems to indicate that he was alone at that time. The prosecution also presumes that, due to the position in which the body was left and the injuries from the fall, Payne “did not adopt a reflex posture to protect himself and that he could have fallen into a state of semi or total unconsciousness.”

The body of the artist, who in the past has already spoken about the consequences of mass fame and his problems with alcohol, will remain in Argentina until the autopsy is completed. Last weekend, the artist’s father arrived in the Argentine capital to carry out the repatriation procedures to the United Kingdom, something that, according to several sources informed the Efe agency, may take between 10 and 15 days. Geoff Payne met with the prosecutor investigating the incident, was at the morgue and asked to visit the hotel room from where his son fell. He also went out to the doors of the accommodation to visit the memorial that Liam Payne and One Direction fans made as soon as they heard the news of his death.

After his death, people have learned how the previous moments of the tragedy took place. For example, the hotel staff called the emergency services to ask for help due to the behavior of a client who had consumed alcohol and drugs. “We need to send someone urgently because I don’t know if the guest’s life is in danger, because he is in a room with a balcony and we fear he may do something that threatens his life,” one of the workers told emergency services in another subsequent call. . But the last call they made was only to request the sending of an ambulance, since the artist had fallen into the interior patio of the accommodation. Emergency crews were only able to certify Payne’s death. Three of the workers at the establishment, located in the central neighborhood of Palermo, in Buenos Aires, have already been questioned by the police, who are also trying to determine if any of them helped the artist obtain the drugs.

According to several British media, such as Daily Mailthe funeral of Liam Payne is scheduled, whose death has shocked the music industry and especially his four former One Direction colleagues —Zayn Malik announced last weekend that after “the heartbreaking loss” he is postponing his tour Stairway to the Sky by the United States—will be held in November.