Liam Payne death: Police investigating whether hotel worker gave former One Direction singer drugs before death, sources say

New details came to light during the investigation Liam Paynedeath.

Among the new details, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told ABC News that police have reviewed closed-circuit television footage that appears to show multiple drug exchanges between a dealer and a hotel employee that occurred before Payne’s death. Sources say police are investigating whether a hotel employee supplied Payne with drugs.

ABC News sources say the CCTV footage also shows Payne sleeping twice in the hotel lobby with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

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Sources say police never believed Payne’s death was a suicide or that it was intentional.

Sources previously told ABC News that a partial autopsy also found he had multiple substances in his system that day, including “pink cocaine” – a recreational drug that is typically a mixture of several drugs including methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and others – as ABC News reported. as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack. According to sources, a makeshift aluminum pipe for taking drugs was also found in his hotel room.

According to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, police also found two female escorts present at the hotel in the hours before Payne’s death.

Payne used the app to offer $5,000 to two female escorts who were allegedly summoned to the lobby of the hotel where Payne was staying at the time of his death. Sources say he did not pay the escort.

Sources also say a Rolex watch was also found in Payne’s hotel room.

Sources added that Payne’s body is expected to be released to his family next week.

According to officials at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, Payne’s father, Geoff, has been in Buenos Aires since October 18, trying to bring back his son’s body for burial in England. The release of Payne’s body depends on the court’s findings in the criminal case.

According to Argentine State Police, Payne died on October 16 after falling from a third-floor hotel room in Palermo, Buenos Aires. He was 31 years old.

Emergency services were called to deal with a man who was acting erratically and possibly under the influence, Alberto Crescenti, director of SAME, Buenos Aires Emergency Medical Services, previously told ABC News. According to Crescenti, Payne’s body was found in the hotel’s inner courtyard, where he was pronounced dead.

A preliminary autopsy report by the Argentine prosecutor’s office revealed on October 17 that Payne died from “multiple injuries” and “internal and external bleeding”.

Twenty-five injuries were reported on Payne’s body. The report concluded that Payne’s head injuries were sufficient to cause death and that the cause of death was related to the height of his fall.