The Argentine Court leaves charges against 3 people accused in the death of singer Liam Payne

A court in Argentina withdrew criminal negligence charges against three of the Five accused people In relation to the death of Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer who fell from a hotel balcony on the third floor In Buenos Aires last October, according to a ruling obtained by Associated Press on Thursday (February 20).

In its decision issued on Wednesday, the Argentine Federal Court of Federal Appeals ordered the other two defendants in the case to remain in custody. They face a prosecution for charges that supplied the famous Narcotics Boyband star.

The ruling eliminates charges against three key accused: Rogelio Nores, an Argentine businessman with American citizenship who had accompanied Payne during his trip in Buenos Aires; Gilda Martin, manager of the Casa Sur Palermo Hotel, where Payne died on October 16; and Esteban Grassi, the hotel’s main receptionist.

The position of negligent homicide entails a sentence of one to five years in prison in Argentina.

A report of toxicology of the tests taken after an autopsy revealed that Payne, 31, had alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant prescribed in his system when he fell from the balcony.

The prosecutors argued that Nores had not fulfilled their attention duties by leaving Payne alone while full of people. The court was put on the side of the defense lawyers who argued that Nores did not have a legal, moral or social duty to take care of Payne. He was also out of the hotel at the time of his friend’s death.

The two employees of the hotel, Martin and Grassi, were in the lobby of Casa Sur on October 16 when they saw Payne very intoxicated and decided to take it to their room with the help of others, the researchers determined.

Prosecutors said men should have kept Payne away from their hotel room, where a balcony represented a clear danger, until the singer could receive adequate medical care. On Wednesday, the court ruled that prosecutors could not prove how Payne to their hotel room “constituted illegal, rebellious, clumsy, reckless, reckless or negligent behavior.”

The court also ordered the other two defendants in the case: Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former employee of the Casa Sur and Braian Paiz hotel, a waiter who had served Payne in an exclusive restaurant in Buenos Aires, who remained detained for charges that they supplied. With narcotics in the days, even hours, before his death.

Because the position they face entails a sentence of four to 15 years in prison, the court said the preventive detention was justified.

Payne’s sudden death drew A lot of pain Worldwide, of the disconsolate fans of One Direction, among the bands of best -selling boys of all time.