Police files from the October 2024 death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne reveal never-before-seen photos, CCTV footage, and text messages detailing his final hours at a Buenos Aires hotel, where investigators documented heavy drug and alcohol use.
More than 3,000 documents, photographs, and official reports gathered by investigators following the October 16, 2024, death of Liam Payne have shed new light on the former One Direction singer’s final hours at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. The investigative cache includes images of the musician interacting with hotel staff, moving through hallways, and spending time with two sex workers on the day of his death.
Investigative Files Detail Final Hours at CasaSur Hotel
Investigators compiled an extensive archive of sworn statements, official reports, and media that trace the singer’s movements during his stay in Argentina according to details shared by the Mail on Sunday. The evidence files show that Payne had racked up a $550 booze bill on his final day. Police documents note that a psychiatrist had previously sent a letter warning him not to mix alcohol with his prescribed medications.
CCTV footage captured in the hotel corridor one hour before he plunged from the balcony of Room 310 shows Payne looking gaunt and hollow-eyed. Other images from the police files show him swinging around a pole in the street at 3 a.m. while waiting for drug deliveries, an activity that led investigators to conclude he may have possessed enough upper-body strength to believe he could safely scale down from his balcony.
Interactions With Call Girls and Messages to Friends
Police records show that Payne spent his final hours engaging with two women hired as escorts, identified in the investigative file as Aldana Serrano and Lucila Goitea. According to statements in the police files, the women told investigators that Payne sang for them and asked about obtaining cocaine.
By 7 a.m. on October 16, 2024, Payne had messaged his best friend, Roger Nores, stating that he intended to spend time with an escort according to text message records. The documents also note that Payne begged one of the women to bring him five grams of cocaine so he could manufacture crack.
Family Statements and Background on the Argentina Trip
Payne had traveled to Argentina to renew his United States visa and to attend a concert by his former bandmate, Niall Horan. He spent two weeks on holiday with his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, before she returned to their home in Wellington, Florida, leaving him alone in Buenos Aires.
“He was not in control with what he did. He was not Liam.”
Geoff Payne, father
In a sworn statement included in the investigative documents, Payne’s father, Geoff, told prosecutors that his son struggled when left without someone to keep him grounded. Geoff Payne stated that his son had appeared well and clean of drugs when the family last saw him on August 29, while he was filming a television project in Manchester according to the police file statements. Toxicology testing conducted after the fatal fall detected alcohol, cocaine, crack, and ketamine in his system.
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