Overview

• Hotel worker Ezequiel Pereyra and waiter Braian Paiz are formally accused of supplying cocaine to Payne, have been in custody since January, and deny wrongdoing.
• Investigators are still examining roughly 800 hours of CCTV along with phone and laptop material, and one seized phone was reportedly searched months after confiscation.
• Prosecutors say the men supplied drugs at least twice in the two weeks before Payne’s death, with CCTV reportedly capturing a request for “seven grams more” on the day he died.
• A UK inquest recorded polytrauma as the medical cause of death, and toxicology found cocaine, alcohol and prescription antidepressants; earlier manslaughter charges against three others were dropped.
• Probate records show Letters of Administration issued in May naming Cheryl Tweedy and Richard Bray as estate administrators, with a reported value around £24.3m, and Payne’s family has raised £250,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital in his memory.