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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Almudena Calatrava

Argentine judge charges 5 people over death of former One Direction star Liam Payne

Argentina Payne Death - (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

An Argentine judge confirmed charges against five people in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, and ordered preventive prison for two of them for having supplied him with drugs.

A judicial officer confirmed Monday the judge's decision and said that one of the two people ordered to be put under preventive prison — a form of pre-trial detention — was an employee of the hotel in Buenos Aires where Payne stayed until he died after falling from the balcony of his room in October.

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