Liam Payne’s body will be released to family after former One Direction singer’s tragic death in Buenos Aires: police sources

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Liam Payne’s body will be handed over to his family two police sources told 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.

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 has revealed this Payne had multiple substances in his system the day he fell to his death from his hotel room.

A preliminary report released a day after his death said the singer died from “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 this Surveillance footage checked by the police There appeared to be multiple drug exchanges between the dealer and the hotel employee 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.

Watch “The Price of Fame: The Liam Payne Story – 20/20 Special” airing at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 3 on ABC and streaming on Hulu from November 4.

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