三个人被指控犯有“遗弃他人并导致他人死亡罪、提供毒品罪和为毒品提供便利罪”与死亡有关前单向乐队歌手利亚姆·佩恩上个月,阿根廷公共检察官办公室在周四的一份声明中说。
被指控与佩恩之死有关的三个人中包括一名陪同佩恩(姓氏)“他在布宜诺斯艾利斯逗留期间的每一天”检察官办公室表示,此人被指控犯有“遗弃他人致死罪”,该罪名可能会被判处5至15年监禁。
检察官说,被指控的另外两个人都面临“提供毒品罪”的指控。根据检察官办公室的说法,其中包括一名酒店员工,据信他在佩恩住在酒店时向他提供了两份可卡因,以及一名毒品供应商,他被指控在“10月14日的两个不同时间”向佩恩提供毒品。
根据阿根廷警方的说法,佩恩于10月16日从他在布宜诺斯艾利斯巴勒莫酒店的三楼房间坠落后死亡。他31岁。
佩恩的父亲杰夫·佩恩(Geoff Payne)周三带着儿子的遗体离开布宜诺斯艾利斯,前往英国。他已经在该国呆了几个星期,等待当局允许他在刑事调查结束后带着佩恩的尸体返回英国。
对佩恩死亡的调查发现,他“在坠落时没有完全清醒,或者正在经历明显的意识下降或丧失状态”,导致检察官办公室排除了“任何形式的自残”。
“对于控方来说,这种情况也排除了受害者有意识或自愿行为的可能性,因为在他所处的状态下,他不知道自己在做什么,也无法理解,”检察官办公室说。
检察官办公室表示,“在他死前的一刻,以及至少在他生命的最后72小时内,佩恩体内只有酒精、可卡因和一种处方抗抑郁剂等多种药物的痕迹。”
“佩恩的所有伤害都是由高处坠落造成的,排除了任何形式的自残和/或第三方的身体干预,”检察官办公室说。
这一消息是在两名接近调查的官员向ABC新闻证实警方搜查了酒店员工和佩恩一个朋友的家之后发布的。
据检察官办公室称,总共进行了九次搜查,警方没收了手机、一个硬盘、三台笔记本电脑和包括大麻在内的毒品。
上周,多个对调查有直接了解的消息来源告诉ABC新闻警方审查了闭路电视录像,录像显示在佩恩死亡之前,一名毒贩和一名酒店员工进行了多次毒品交易。当时有消息称,警方正在调查该酒店员工是否向佩恩提供了毒品。
此前,消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻,一名部分尸检还发现他那天体内有多种物质,包括“粉色可卡因”——一种典型的由几种药物混合而成的娱乐性药物,包括甲基苯丙胺、氯胺酮、摇头丸等——以及可卡因、苯二氮卓和快克。根据消息来源,在他的酒店房间里还发现了一个简易的吸食毒品的铝管。
A初步尸检来自阿根廷检察官办公室的报告显示,佩恩于10月17日死于“多处外伤”和“内外出血”。
据报道佩恩身上有25处伤痕。报告称,佩恩头部受伤足以导致死亡,死亡原因与他坠落的高度有关。
3 charged in connection with Liam Payne's death, self-harm ruled out in cause of death
Three people have been charged with "crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics,"in connection with the deathof former One Direction singerLiam Paynelast month, the Argentinian Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement Thursday.
The three people charged in connection with Payne's death include a person who accompaniedPayneon a "daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires." This person was charged with "crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death," a charge which has a potential sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison, the prosecutor's office said.
The other two people charged each face charges for "the crime of supplying narcotics," the prosecutors said. They include a hotel employee who is believed to have provided Payne with two supplies of cocaine while he was staying at the hotel, and a drug supplier accused of providing Payne with supplies of drugs at "two different times on Oct. 14," according to the prosecutor's office.
Payne died on Oct. 16 after falling from his third-story hotel room in Palermo, Buenos Aires, according to Argentina state police. He was 31 years old.
Payne’s father, Geoff Payne, departed Buenos Aires with his son’s body, headed to the United Kingdom, on Wednesday. He had been in the country for weeks waiting for authorities to allow him to return to the U.K. with Payne's body once the criminal investigation had concluded.
The investigation into Payne's death found he was "not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall," causing the prosecutor's office to rule out "self-harm of any kind."
"For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim, since, in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing nor could he understand it," the prosecutor's office said.
"In the moments before his death and in the period of at least his last 72 hours, Payne only had traces of polydrug use of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his body," the results of the toxicology tests showed, the prosecutor's office said.
"All the injuries that Payne had were compatible with those caused by a fall from a height and that self-harm of any kind and/or physical intervention by third parties were ruled out," the prosecutor's office said.
The news comes after two officers close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News that police had raided the homes of hotel employees and a friend of Payne.
Nine raids in total were conducted, with police confiscating cellphones, a hard drive, three laptops and drugs, including marijuana, according to the prosecutor's office.
Last week, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigationtold ABC Newspolice had reviewed CCTV footage which appeared to show multiple drug exchanges between a dealer and a hotel employee taking place prior to Payne's death. Sources at the time said police were investigating if the hotel employee provided Payne with drugs.
Previously, sources told ABC News that apartial autopsyalso found that he had multiple substances in his system that day, including "pink cocaine" -- a recreational drug that typically is a mix of several drugs including methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and others -- as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack. An improvised aluminum pipe to ingest drugs was also found in his hotel room, according to the sources.
Apreliminary autopsyreport from the Argentinian Prosecutor's Office revealed on Oct. 17 that Payne died from "multiple traumas" and "internal and external bleeding."
Twenty-five injuries were reported on Payne's body. The report stated that Payne's head injuries were sufficient to cause death and the cause of death was related to the height of his fall.