A court in Argentina withdrew charges of criminal negligence against three of the five people accused in relation to the death of Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer who fell from a balcony of the third floor hotel in Buenos Aires last October, according to a Failure obtained by Associated Press on Thursday.
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 Hotel Casasur in the modern neighborhood of Palermo, 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.
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The two hotel employees, Martin and Grassi, were in the Casasur hotel 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 Payne should have stayed away from his hotel room, where a balcony represented a clear danger, until he 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 Casasur and Braian Paiz hotel, a waiter who had served Payne in an exclusive restaurant in Buenos Aires, to remain detained by the positions with which Payne Narcotics supplied in the days, even hours, before their 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 attracted an effusion of pain worldwide with the broken heart of One Direction, among the best -selling children bands of all time.
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