Police sources say Liam Payne’s body will be released to his family

Liam Payne The body will be released to his family, two police sources tell ABC News.

Sources say prosecutors have agreed to release Payne’s body to his father, Geoff Payne.

Geoff Payne has been in the Argentine capital since October 18, trying to repatriate his son’s body for burial in his native England, according to officials at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.

Earlier, sources said that the release of Payne’s body was dependent on the court’s findings in the criminal case.

The One direction the singer died on October 16 after falling from the balcony of his hotel room on the third floor of the CasaSur hotel in Palermo, Buenos Aires.

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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.

Since his death, A partial autopsy discovered that on the day Payne fell from his hotel room, he had multiple substances in his system.

The preliminary report released a day after his death, stated that the singer died of “multiple injuries” and “internal and external bleeding”. An autopsy revealed that there were twenty-five injuries on his body, all of which were the result of a fall.

Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation say CCTV footage reviewed by police shows multiple drug exchanges between a dealer and a hotel employee that took place before Payne’s death.

Sources say police are still investigating whether a hotel employee provided Payne with drugs.

Argentine authorities raided the hotel on October 23 as part of an ongoing investigation into the late singer’s death.

ABC News sources say there appears to be CCTV footage of Payne sleeping in the hotel lobby with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

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

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.

ABC News has contacted the hotel for comment.