Time to mourn for the family and loved ones of Liam Payne. The body of the former member of the boy band One Direction, who died in Buenos Aires in October at the age of 31, is being transferred to London on Wednesday, a police source told AFP. Geoff Payne, the singer’s father, is accompanying the body on board a plane that took off from Buenos Aires international airport.
The body of Liam Payne was preserved in the British Cemetery in Buenos Aires while the cause of death was investigated. On Tuesday, Geoff Payne visited the memorial that fans have erected outside the hotel where his son died, a heap of letters, photos and flowers on the sidewalk.
Wave of emotion
Liam Payne was found dead on October 16 after falling from the balcony of his hotel room. Preliminary autopsy results established that he was going through “some kind of crisis due to substance abuse “according to the Argentine Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Her death caused a wave of emotion among her many fans around the world. The pop star had spoken publicly about her drug addiction and her difficulty in coping with fame from an early age.
Liam Payne had been catapulted to stardom in 2010 thanks to One Direction, the product of the TV show ” The X Factor “. The group became one of the world’s most lucrative boy bands, before a hiatus in 2016, never made official as a split.