A court in Argentina abandoned accusations of criminal negligence against three of the five people charged in the context of the death of Liam PayneThe former singer One Direction who fell from a hotel on the third floor in Buenos Aires last October, according to a decision obtained Thursday by the Associated Press.
In his decision rendered on Wednesday, the Argentine Federal Court of Appeal ordered the other accused of remaining in detention. They face the charges they provided the famous star of the British boyband with narcotics.
The decision abandons the accusations against three key accused: Rogelio Nores, an Argentinian businessman of American citizenship who had accompanied Payne during his trip to Buenos Aires; Gilda Martin, director of the Casasur hotel in the trendy district of Palermo where Payne died on October 16; And Esteban Grassi, the main receptionist of the hotel.
The accusation of negligence homicide is sentenced to a sentence of one to five years in prison in Argentina.
A test of toxicology of the tests carried out after an autopsy revealed that Payne, 31, had alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant of prescription in his system when he fell from the balcony.
The prosecutors argued that Nores had not respected his care functions by leaving Payne alone in a state of drunkenness. The Court ranked on the side of the defense lawyers who argued that Nores had no legal, moral or social obligation to take care of Payne. He was also outside the hotel at the time of his friend’s death.
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The two employees of the hotel, Martin and Grassi, were in the hall of the Hotel Casasur on October 16 when they saw Payne severely intoxicated and decided to take it to his room with the Help others, determined the investigators.
Prosecutors said Payne should have been away from her hotel room, where a balcony posed a clear danger, until he could receive appropriate medical care. On Wednesday, the court ruled that prosecutors had not proven how to bring Payne to her hotel room “constituted illegal, unruly, clumsy, reckless, reckless or negligent driving”.
The court also ordered the two other accused in the case – Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former employee of the Casasur hotel and Braian Paiz, a server who had served Payne in a high -end restaurant of Buenos Aires – to stay in Detention for having provided Payne with Payne with Payne with narcotics in the days, even hours, led to her death.
Because the accusation they faced put a sentence of four to 15 years in prison, the court said that preventive detention was justified.
The sudden death of Payne has attracted a sorrow of sorrow around the world of fans of the broken heart of a direction, among the best -selling boys of all time.
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