BUENOS AIRES:
Medicine are the one factor in charge within the demise of former One Route star Liam Payne, in response to a detailed pal who was cleared final month of costs he was concerned with the singer’s demise.
Rogelio “Roger” Nores, talking to Reuters on Friday alongside his lawyer, described Payne’s October fall from a Buenos Aires lodge balcony as “unhealthy luck” and a “tragedy.”
Nores and two workers on the lodge the place Payne died had been cleared by a courtroom in February of any wrongdoing.
Two different folks stay detained awaiting trial over accusations they plied the 31-year-old Payne with cocaine throughout his keep in Buenos Aires.
“As a pal, you see them having a medicine downside and also you do what you may however on the finish of the day it is their choice,” mentioned Nores. “You begin seeing a sequence of occasions and it was simply unhealthy luck, it occurred in a manner that resulted in tragedy.”
Payne was identified for his stint in one of the widespread boy bands of all time, One Route, created by Simon Cowell from contestants on the UK model of TV present The X Consider 2010.
Payne met Nores, a businessman, in 2020, later visiting him at his dwelling in Palm Seaside, Florida, in response to Nores, a twin US-Argentina citizen.
“The final six months of his life we had been collectively each single day, on a regular basis, together with our girlfriends at the moment,” Nores mentioned. Nores had final seen Payne that afternoon within the lodge, mentioned his lawyer.
Argentine prosecutors had argued that Nores’ closeness with Payne, and his alleged function because the singer’s supervisor – a job Nores and his lawyer denied – made him accountable in his demise.
Prosecutors mentioned Payne’s post-mortem confirmed on the time of his demise he had “giant portions” of cocaine and alcohol in his system.
Nores’ lawyer, Rafael Cuneo Libarona, mentioned that Nores had despatched Payne’s household an electronic mail the month of his demise recommending he be despatched to a rehabilitation facility.
“It is laborious for somebody well-known to say no to medicine,” Cuneo Libarona mentioned. “Cocaine, ‘tusi’ (pink cocaine), crack, heroin are all medicine which can be actually accessible to well-known folks and there are such a lot of sellers.”
“So let’s not search for who’s responsible, it is the medicine which can be at fault,” he mentioned.
Regardless of being cleared by the courtroom, followers are nonetheless upset with him, mentioned Nores.
“When somebody you grew up with, with their voice, their songs, and unexpectedly they’re gone, it is laborious to take care of,” Nores mentioned. “They’re looking for an evidence.” Reuters
