A Argentine court brought down the charges of criminal neglect against three of the five people who were charged with 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 judgment obtained by the agency Associated Press on Thursday.
In its Wednesday’s decision, the Argentine Federal Court of Appeal ordered the other defendants in the case to stay in the reservation. They are facing a prosecution on charges of providing them with a drug star, famous for the drug BoyBand.
The ruler decreases against three of the main defendants: Rogerio Norris, a Argentine businessman with American citizenship who was accompanying Payne during his journey in Buenos Aires; Gilda Martin, director of the Casasur Hotel in the modern Palemo neighborhood where Payne died on October 16; And Esteban Grassi, the main receptionist of the hotel.
The charge of neglected murder bears a period of one to five years in prison in Argentina.
A report on toxicology revealed from the tests conducted after the autopsy that Payne, 31, had alcohol, cocaine, and antidepressants a prescription in his system when he fell from the balcony.
Prosecutors have argued that Norses failed to comply with his care duties by leaving Payne alone while he was. The court sided with the defense lawyer, who increased that Norses had no legal, moral or social duty to care for Pine. He was also outside the hotel at the time of his friend’s death.
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The employees of the hotel, Martin and Grassi, were in the Kasasur Hotel on October 16 when they saw Payne very drunk and decided to take him to his room with the help of others, the investigators decided.
Prosecutors said that Payne should have stayed out of his room at the hotel, as a balcony pose a clear danger, so that he could obtain appropriate medical care. On Wednesday, the court ruled that the prosecutors had failed to prove how Payne was transferred to his hotel room “constitutes an illegal, unbridled, clumsy, reckless, unspecified or neglected behavior.”
The court also ordered the other defendants in the case – Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former employee of the Casasur Hotel and Braian Paiz, a pale bine waiter at the upscale Buenos Aires restaurant – to stay in their detention on charges of Payne with drugs in the days, until hours, which led to his death .
Since the charge they face carried a four to 15 -year prison sentence, the court said that the preventive detention was justified.
Payne’s sudden death sparked the flow of sadness all over the world from harsh fans in One Direction, among the best boy’s teams in all ages.
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