Two more hotel workers could face charges over Liam Payne's death
Authorities are reportedly considering charging two more people in connection with Liam Payne’s death.
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Law enforcement sources have allegedly told TMZ a judge is considering charges in a new filing against two employees at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the One Direction star fell to his death from his third-floor balcony.
According to the report, the judge referenced the receptionist who called 911 twice the morning the 31-year-old, from Wolverhampton, died (October 16). The receptionist reportedly still works at the hotel.
Last month, three people were arrested and charged with "abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics," a statement by the office of prosecutor Andres Esteban Madrea said.
Argentinian prosecutors probing his death confirmed the first three arrests and also noted that one of them was a hotel staff member.
The two latest employees are scheduled to appear in court on December 19, according to a court document.
The document also stated that there is "sufficient reason to suspect that they have participated in the investigated act, we ask that the following people give a statement."
Under Buenos Aires' legal process, post-interrogation, the governing judge is tasked with deciding whether the individuals in question should face further prosecution, be dismissed from the proceeding, or if the evidence at hand does not support a clear decision.
The receptionist told 911 dispatchers at the time that a guest had "too many drugs and alcohol" and was "trashing the entire room." He followed up with another call stating that the guests life "may be in danger".
A toxicology report following Liam's death revealed the father-of-one's tragic death has been linked to a substance-induced "psychotic episode" and that he "did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself in the fall, so that, for the moment, it can be inferred he may have fallen in a state of semi or total unconsciousness."
They concluded: "For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim since, in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it."
Traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant were found in his system.
His private funeral was held last month at St Mary’s Church in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, near his home and attended by his family and closest celebrity friends.